A UNIVERSAL PREFERENCE FOR ANIMATE AGENTS IN HOMINIDS

A universal preference for animate agents in hominids

Summary: When conversing, humans instantaneously predict meaning from fragmentary and ambiguous mspeech, long before utterance completion.They do this by integrating priors (initial assumptions about the world) with contextual evidence to rapidly decide on the most likely meaning.One powerful prior is attentional preference for agents, which biases

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