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  • Comparative psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

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  • Vocal communication is vital for social interaction in many species.
  • The relationship between human and nonhuman vocal behavior is not well understood.
  • Comparative studies require a unified framework for analyzing communicative actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review literature on interactive language use.
  • To identify cognitive operations underlying vocal communication.
  • To propose a conceptual model for cross-species comparison.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of interactive language use.
  • Identification of cognitive operations for communicative action.
  • Development of the Convergent Pathways for Interaction framework.

Main Results:

  • Identified three intersecting multistep pathways: Content, Timing, and Affect.
  • The Content Pathway selects movements for a response.
  • The Timing Pathway structures responses temporally, and the Affect Pathway modulates parameters based on internal state.

Conclusions:

  • The Convergent Pathways for Interaction framework offers a model for studying vocal communication.
  • This framework facilitates investigation of cognitive and neural computations in vocal interactions.
  • Enables comparative analysis of vocal communication across species.