Never Say No … How the Brain Interprets the Pregnant Pause in Conversation

Sara Bögels; Kobin H. Kendrick; Stephen C. Levinson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145474

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Never Say No … How the Brain Interprets the Pregnant Pause in Conversation

Sara Bögels ,

* E-mail: sara.bogels@mpi.nl

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Kobin H. Kendrick,

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Stephen C. Levinson

Affiliations Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Never Say No … How the Brain Interprets the Pregnant Pause in Conversation

Sara Bögels,
Kobin H. Kendrick,
Stephen C. Levinson

Published: December 23, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145474

About the Authors

Sara Bögels

* E-mail: sara.bogels@mpi.nl

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Kobin H. Kendrick

Affiliation Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Stephen C. Levinson

Affiliations Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB KHK. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: SB. Wrote the paper: SB KHK SCL.

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