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Introduc)on

Conclusions

Perspec've-‐Taking •  Virtually all communica)ve exchanges have asymmetry between

what par)cipants know •  Perspec)ve is cri)cal for crea)ng and interpre)ng referring

expressions •  Interlocutors must dis)nguish between privileged ground (PG),

knowledge possessed by one, and common ground (CG), knowledge possessed by both and mutually accepted as such [1,2]

Research Ques'on: How do we track perspec've?

Anchoring & Adjustment (“curse of knowledge”) [3] •  Accessing and using CG is cogni)vely costly •  First-‐pass interpreta)on typically does not aLempt to

consider CG •  Second-‐pass can use CG to detect and correct errors •  Unusual circumstances can override this default egocentric

perspec)ve

An'cipa'on & Integra'on [4-‐6] •  Individuals can strategically an)cipate items in CG •  But they automa)cally consider all referents in their

egocentric perspec)ve as referen)al descrip)on unfolds

Constraint-‐Based [7-‐9] •  Humans are natural perspec)ve takers •  Accessing and using CG is rela)vely easy •  However, CG is one of many compe)ng cues

Materials ·∙ Methods ·∙ Predic)ons

à PG compe)tor condi)on does not elicit Nref effect

Suggests PG object not considered to be a candidate for reference

References

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What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolu'on

Les Sikos1, Sam Tomlinson2, Conor Heins2, and Dan Grodner2 1 Psycholinguis)c Group ·∙ Saarland University ·∙ Germany 2 Department of Psychology ·∙ Swarthmore College ·∙ USA

All sta)s)cal effects remain even when looking at first half only. Effects are numerically similar when looking at first quarter only.

Addressee’s view Director’s view

“Pick up the block”

Condi'ons Trials CG Compe)tor 40 PG Compe)tor 40 No Compe)tor 40 Control 1 (C1) 40 Control 2 (C2) 40 200 total

Par'cipants •  50 right-‐handed, na)ve speakers

of American English (26 male) •  Mean age: 19.0 (range 18 to 22) EEG Recording •  64-‐channel HydroCel GSN (EGI) •  Bandpass: 0.03-‐40 Hz •  Re-‐reference: Avg. mastoids •  Voltages averaged for analysis

within nine 4-‐channel clusters

Task •  Modified referen)al communica)on

game •  Press key corresponding to quadrant

Familiariza'on •  20 trials as Addressee •  20 trials as Director •  “Can you describe to me what the

Director can see during the game?” Previous Work Keysar and colleagues [10-‐12]

Task: Referen)al communica)on game

Results: PG compe)tor elicited increased fixa)ons and delayed the selec)on of the target

Results and Discussion

Open Ques'ons Why do par'cipants fixate the PG compe'tor and why are they delayed in picking up the target?

1.  Truly consider compe)tor to be a candidate for reference 2.  Low-‐level aLen)on is drawn to compe)tor due to

relatedness (i.e., a behavioral distrac)on effect)

Behavioral measures cannot dis'nguish these possibili'es. Can ERP methods help?

Nref Effect – Sensi)ve to referen)al ambiguity [13-‐15]

Predic'ons

1.  Referent with CG compe)tor should elicit Nref effect rela)ve to no compe)tor

2.  If so: a.  If PG compe)tor considered candidate for reference

à Nref effect a.  If PG compe)tor not considered as candidate

à No Nref effect

Accuracy (Propor)on Correct)

Response Time (ms)

n.s. ***

No effect of condi)on

NO < CG*** and PG* PG < CG*

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•  The present work replicates the behavioral distrac)on effect of a compe)tor in privileged ground, but without the neural signature corresponding to referen)al ambiguity

à  This indicates that behavioral distrac)on does not always reflect referen)al processing

•  ERP results show that listeners efficiently used ground to constrain poten)al referents to objects in common ground

à Extends previous results that ground informa)on influences on-‐line language processing without being triggered by unusual circumstances [9] à Argues against both Anchoring & Adjustment and An)cipa)on & Integra)on accounts

Effect can persist 1 sec or more aper point of disambigua)on [15]

à Replicates effect of PG distrac)on seen in earlier studies

1.  Stalnacker 1978 2.  Clark 1996 3.  Epley, Morewedge &

Keysar 2004 4.  Barr 2008 5.  Barr 2011 6.  Barr, in press 7.  Hanna, Tanenhaus &

Trueswell 2003 8.  Brown-‐Schmidt & Hanna

2011 9.  Heller, Grodner &

Tanenhaus 2008

10. Wu & Keysar 2007 11. Keysar, Barr, Balin &

Brauner 2000 12. Keysar, Lin & Barr 2003 13. Van Berkum, Brown &

Hagoort 1999 14. Van Berkum, Koornneef,

OLen & Nieuwland 2007 15. Nieuwland, OLen & Van

Berkum 2007 16. Baron-‐Cohen, Wheelwright,

Skinner, Mar)n & Clubley 2001

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à CG compe)tor condi)on elicits Nref effect

By 600 ms aper auditory word onset, system has determined whether unique referent or not

Director’s perspec)ve

“Click on the chimpanzee with the party hat.”

CG Compe'tor

“Click on the mountain lion …”

PG Compe'tor No Compe'tor Control 1 Control 2

Experimental session •  Animals appear one by one (1000 ms SOA) •  Fixa)on prompt: Bell rings and red fixa)on

cross appears in center of display (600-‐900 ms) •  Pre-‐recorded auditory s)mulus (ms)

Target onset M = 2882 (200) Disambigua)on M = 879 (112) Total dura)on M = 4862 (438)

•  Response prompt: Bell

Current Ongoing Research

Research Ques'on Is brain response to referen)al ambiguity greater when more poten)al referents are available in situa)on model? 3-‐ref > 2-‐ref ? Previous Work Greater ambiguity elicits larger Nref effect (Nieuwland & van Berkum, 2006) Implica'ons Results of this study could help inform our understanding of referen)al processing and server to constrain future computa)onal models of such processing

Experiment 1 – Visual World

Addressee’s perspec)ve

“Is the ball that is doLed on the lep?” (True)

0-‐ref-‐2 0-ref-3 0-‐ref-‐1

1-‐ref 2-‐ref 3-‐ref

“Is the umbrella that is striped on the lep?” (False)

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Predic'ons

… ball that is dotted… … he … colleagues…

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… ball that is dotted/striped…

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Nref effect

Experiment 2 — Linguis)c 1-‐ref Three movie stars, Brad Pi^, Julia Roberts, and Catherine Zeta-‐Jones, went to the premier of a new film. Although he was already sivng in the theater, Brad PiL's colleagues were s)ll on the red carpet. 2-‐ref Three movie stars, Brad Pi^, George Clooney, and Catherine Zeta-‐Jones, went to the premier of a new film. Although he was already sivng in the theater, Brad PiL's colleagues were s)ll on the red carpet. 3-‐ref Three movie stars, Brad Pi^, George Clooney, and Ma^ Damon, went to the premier of a new film. Although he was already sivng in the theater, Brad PiL's colleagues were s)ll on the red carpet.

Research funded by the Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College

Poster presented at RefNet Round Table ·∙ Jan 15-‐16, 2016 ·∙ University of Aberdeen, UK

Les Sikos, Harm Brouwer, Heiner Drenhaus, and MaLhew W. Crocker (Saarland University)

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