Month: April 2020

Interacting With Multiple Partners Improves Communication Skills

Abstract Successful communication is important for both society and people’s personal life. Here we show that people can improve their communication skills by interacting with multiple others, and that this improvement seems to come about by a greater tendency to take the addressee’s perspective when there are multiple partners. In Experiment 1, during a training […]

Published on April 17, 2020

Beyond Consistency: Contextual Dependency of Language Style in Monolog and Conversation

Abstract Language is highly dynamic: It unfolds over time, and we can use it to achieve a wide variety of communicative goals, from telling a story to trying to persuade another person. One aspect of language that has gained increasing popularity among researchers in the last several decades is the individual language style (LS) represented […]

Published on April 17, 2020

Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning

Attention is the important ability to flexibly control limited computational resources. It has been studied in conjunction with many other topics in neuroscience and psychology including awareness, vigilance, saliency, executive control, and learning. It has also recently been applied in several domains in machine learning. The relationship between the study of biological attention and its […]

Published on April 17, 2020