Publication: A universal preference for animate agents in hominids
A universal preference for animate agents in hominids
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Brocard, S., Wilson, V. A. D., Berton, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids. IScience, 27(6), 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996
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When conversing, humans instantaneously predict meaning from fragmentary and ambiguous mspeech, long before utterance completion. They do this by integrating priors (initial assumptions about the world) with contextual evidence to rapidly decide on the most likely meaning. One powerful prior is attentional preference for agents, which biases sentence processing but universally so only if agents are animate. Here, we investigate the evolutionary origins of this preference, by allowing chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, human children,
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- Brocard, Sarah
- Wilson, Vanessa A D
- Berton, Chloé
- Zuberbühler, Klaus
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Brocard, S., Wilson, V. A. D., Berton, C., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids. IScience, 27(6), 109996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109996
