Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHumans 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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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Crockford C, Wittig RM, Girard-Buttoz C.
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Disruption of Epistemic Trust in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Possible Adaptation to Avoid Making Costly Mistakes. [PDF]
Personal Ment HealthABSTRACT This paper applies error management theory (EMT) (Haselton and Buss 2000) to explore how disruptions in epistemic trust—trust in communicated information—can be understood as adaptive responses to early adversity in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Kurt Y.
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Neural responses to multimodal ostensive signals in 5-month-old infants. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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No evidence for adult smartphone use affecting attribution of communicative intention in toddlers: Online imitation study using the Sock Ball Task. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAdults 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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Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game. [PDF]
PLoS 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
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Obliteration, Ostension, Ostentation: The Visibility of the Sacred Body in Catholic Culture
Signata, 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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THE PLACE OF LEGENDARY EXPRESSIONS in POPULAR CULTURE AND DISPLAY METHODOLOGY: OSTENSION /EFSANEVİ ANLATIMLARIN POPÜLER KÜLTÜR VE GÖSTERİM METODOLOJİSİNDEKİ YERİ: OSTENSİON [PDF]
Folklor/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
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New Start: the Marrgu Residency Program and the Future of Showing
OBOE, 2021 This paper addresses the ontology of residencies, interrogating artist residencies in relation to the ostensive, that involves the act of showing, displaying, exhibiting and demonstrating something.
Miriam La Rosa
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Memoria y gráfica popular en el espacio público: un acercamiento cromático desde la semiótica
Conexión, 2023 Este artículo analiza el rol de la memoria cultural a través de los signos plásticos cromáticos del anuncio gráfico popular peruano. El corpus o material empírico considera la producción gráfica-publicitaria que circula en el espacio público en el ...
Eduardo Enrique Yalán Dongo
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