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      Conceptual Alignment: How Brains Achieve Mutual Understanding.

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      Trends in cognitive sciences
      Elsevier BV

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          We share our thoughts with other minds, but we do not understand how. Having a common language certainly helps, but infants' and tourists' communicative success clearly illustrates that sharing thoughts does not require signals with a pre-assigned meaning. In fact, human communicators jointly build a fleeting conceptual space in which signals are a means to seek and provide evidence for mutual understanding. Recent work has started to capture the neural mechanisms supporting those fleeting conceptual alignments. The evidence suggests that communicators and addressees achieve mutual understanding by using the same computational procedures, implemented in the same neuronal substrate, and operating over temporal scales independent from the signals' occurrences.

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          Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.)
          Trends in cognitive sciences
          Elsevier BV
          1879-307X
          1364-6613
          Mar 2016
          : 20
          : 3
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          [1 ] Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: astolk@berkeley.edu.
          [2 ] Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK.
          [3 ] Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
          Article
          S1364-6613(15)00286-7
          10.1016/j.tics.2015.11.007
          26792458
          66f05c88-77b1-42e7-a95c-26381665dd7a
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