Language endows us with the ability to communicate the contents of our mind with another person. But how do we decode another person’s thoughts and intentions from a sequence of sounds (speech) or shapes (letters, signs)? This challenge seems compounded by the fact that transmission of this sequence is often imperfect – speakers and listeners make errors, don’t have the same prior knowledge, and sometimes even see different things. Yet, communication with another person typically feels effortless. In the Language, Interaction, & Cognition (LInC) Lab, we take a cognitive science approach to understanding how the human language processing system extracts meaning from uncertain and variable input.
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