Who is respectful? Effects of social context and individual empathic ability on ambiguity resolution during utterance comprehension

Verbal communication is often ambiguous. By employing the event-related potential (ERP) technique, this study investigated how a comprehender resolves referential ambiguity by using information concerning the social status of communicators. Participants read a conversational scenario which included...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaoming eJiang, Xiaolin eZhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ERP
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01588/full