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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Communication involves complex many-to-many mappings between behaviors and intentions.
  • Humans navigate these ambiguities using social cognitive skills like mentalizing and communicative motivation, or general cognitive abilities.
  • Understanding the cognitive underpinnings of successful verbal communication is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate which cognitive traits predict communicative success in a verbal referential task.
  • To differentiate the roles of social cognitive skills (mentalizing, motivation) versus general cognitive abilities in communication.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed psychometric tests for motivation, mentalizing, and general cognitive abilities (abstract visuo-spatial).
  • Communicative success was measured via an online interactive task where speakers conveyed concepts to addressees.
  • Utterance interpretability was quantified by the frequency of correct concept inference by evaluators.

Main Results:

  • Speakers with higher motivational and general-purpose cognitive abilities produced more interpretable utterances.
  • These cognitive traits were significant predictors of communicative success.
  • Findings suggest both motivational and general cognitive factors are key to effective communication.

Conclusions:

  • Motivational and general cognitive abilities significantly contribute to successful verbal communication.
  • These findings support the influence of cognitive and motivational factors on rapid convergence in shared communicative innovations.
  • Effective communication relies on a combination of intrinsic drives and cognitive processing capabilities.