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Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Humans convey their communicative intentions ostensively, e.g., calling others’ name and establishing eye-contact. Also when interacting with animals, humans use ostension. In some companion-animal species, ostension increases attentiveness and/or alters
Kimberly Brosche   +5 more
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Interaction and ostension: the myth of 4th-order intentionality. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022
Research in comparative cognition on allegedly uniquely human capacities considers the identification of these human capacities in other species as one of their main points of inquiry. Capacities are applied in their theoretical descriptions to promising
Sievers C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Obliteration, Ostension, Ostentation: The Visibility of the Sacred Body in Catholic Culture

open access: yesSignata, 2023
This paper presents an overview of the main semiotic issues surrounding the representation of the inside of the sacred body in Christian-Catholic material culture and art, in particular sculpture.
Jenny Ponzo
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Communication in relevance theory [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998
Sperber and Wilson (1995) ground their definition of communication on their criticism of Grice's intentional definition of non-natural meaning. In such a perspective, communication is considered as an act rather than as a process.
Franken, Nathalie
doaj   +2 more sources

Ostension and Criminal Legends: Contemporary Horror Tales as Part of Online Youth Lore

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
This article examines the phenomenon of ostension and criminal legends in the context of contemporary horror tales circulating among Estonian youth, particularly through digital media.
Eda Kalmre
doaj   +2 more sources

THE PLACE OF LEGENDARY EXPRESSIONS in POPULAR CULTURE AND DISPLAY METHODOLOGY: OSTENSION /EFSANEVİ ANLATIMLARIN POPÜLER KÜLTÜR VE GÖSTERİM METODOLOJİSİNDEKİ YERİ: OSTENSİON [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2017
The oral (verbal) culture environment is a structure that protects its existence from, starting from the existence of humanity and the desire to communicate with each other, and has formed the largely symbolic symbol of humanity.
Harika Zöhre Eryılmaz
doaj   +2 more sources

Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Infants' sensitivity to ostensive signals, such as direct eye contact and infant-directed speech, is well documented in the literature. We investigated how infants interpret such signals by assessing common processing mechanisms devoted to them and by ...
Eugenio Parise, Gergely Csibra
doaj   +2 more sources

No evidence for adult smartphone use affecting attribution of communicative intention in toddlers: Online imitation study using the Sock Ball Task. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Adults infer others' communicative intentions, or lack thereof, from various types of information. Young children may be initially limited to attributions based on a small set of ostensive signals.
Solveig Flatebø   +2 more
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Is ostension any more than attention? [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2014
According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are sensitive to particular ostensive cues that communicate to them that they are being addressed and that they can expect to learn referential information.
Szufnarowska J   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Orang-utans played a communication game in two studies testing their ability to produce and comprehend requestive pointing. While the 'communicator' could see but not obtain hidden food, the 'donor' could release the food to the communicator, but could ...
Richard Moore   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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