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People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals

2020-08-04

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<p>Beyond words and gestures, people have a remarkable capacity to communicate indirectly through everyday objects: A hat on a chair can mean it is occupied, rope hanging across an entrance can mean we should not cross, and objects placed in a closed box can imply they are not ours to take. How do people generate and interpret the communicative meaning of objects? We hypothesized that this capacity is supported by...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mnf4y

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