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Understanding novel communication relies on the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS). Inhibiting the pSTS impairs using past interactions to interpret new actions, highlighting its role in human communication.

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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Human communication is efficient despite ambiguity.
  • Novel communication settings reveal mechanisms for shared symbol generation and understanding.
  • The right posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is implicated in understanding novel communicative actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the right pSTS is essential for understanding novel communicative actions.
  • To test the causal role of the right pSTS using inhibitory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

Main Methods:

  • Factorial experimental design comparing rTMS over right pSTS versus left MT+ (control site).
  • Tasks included a communicative action understanding task and a visual tracking task using identical stimuli.
  • Assessed changes in task performance over time based on stimulation site and task type.

Main Results:

  • Overall task performance was unaffected by rTMS.
  • rTMS over pSTS diminished the ability to improve action understanding based on recent communicative history.
  • rTMS over the control site (left MT+) disrupted improvement in visual tracking.

Conclusions:

  • The right pSTS is necessary for utilizing past interactions to infer and understand novel communicative actions.
  • This region plays a crucial role in constraining the inferential process in communication by incorporating accumulated knowledge.