Anticipating who will say what: The influence of speaker-specific memory associations on reference resolution.
Some accounts of common ground assume that successful communication requires detailed consideration of others' knowledge. In two studies, we provide evidence for an alternative account that views common ground as being mediated in part through domain-general memory mechanisms. On each trial, partici...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 113 - 127 |
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Jan2012
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