Publications*

The challenges of human communication

Galantucci, B., Langstein, B, Spivack, E, & Paley, N. (2020). Repair avoidance: When faithful informational exchanges don’t matter that much. Cognitive Science, 44: e12882. doi:10.1111/cogs.12882

Galantucci, B., Roberts, G., & Langstein, B. (2018). Content deafness: When coherent talk just doesn't matter. Language & Communication, 61, 29-34.

Roberts, G., Langstein, B., & Galantucci, B. (2016). (In)sensitivity to incoherence in human communication. Language & Communication, 47, 15-22.

Galantucci, B. & Roberts, G. (2014). Do we notice when communication goes awry? An investigation of people's sensitivity to coherence in spontaneous conversation. PLOS ONE 9(7): e103182

Galantucci, B., Theisen, C., Gutierrez, D. E., Kroos, C., & Rhodes, T. (2012). The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad. Language Sciences, 34(5), 583-590.

Galantucci, B. (2009). Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying communication as a form of joint action. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(2), 393-410


Experimental semiotics (research reports)

Roberts, G. & Galantucci, B. (2016). Investigating meaning in experimental semiotics. Psychology of Language and Communication, 20(2), 130-153.

Roberts, G., Lewandowski, J., & Galantucci, B. (2015). How communication changes when you can’t mime the world: Experimental evidence forthe effect of mimesis on combinatoriality. Cognition, 141, 52-66.

Roberts, G. & Galantucci, B. (2012). The emergence of duality of patterning: insights from the laboratory. Language and Cognition, 4(4), 297-318.

Galantucci, B., Kroos, C., & Rhodes, T. (2010). The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems. Interaction Studies, 11(1), 100-111.

Galantucci, B., & Steels, L. (2008). The emergence of embodied communication in artificial agents and humans. In I. Wachsmuth, M. Lenzen & G. Knoblich (Eds.), Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines (pp. 229-256). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Galantucci, B. (2005). An experimental study of the emergence of human communication systems. Cognitive Science, 29(5), 737-767.


Experimental semiotics (reviews and position papers)

Nölle, J., Galantucci, B. (2022). Experimental Semiotics: past, present, and future. The Routledge Handbook of Neurosemiotics

Galantucci, B. (2017). Experimental Semiotics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

Galantucci, B., Garrod, S., & Roberts, G. (2012). Experimental Semiotics. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6(8), 477-493.

Galantucci, B., Roberts, G. (2012). Experimental Semiotics: an engine of discovery for understanding human communication. Advances in Complex Systems, 15(3-4).

Galantucci, B., Garrod, S. (2011). Experimental semiotics: a review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5(11).

Galantucci, B., Garrod, S. (2010). Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication. Interaction Studies, 11(1), 1-13.

Speech perception and production

Galantucci, B., Fowler, C. A., & Goldstein, L. (2009). Perceptuo-motor compatibility effects in speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71(5), 1138-1149.

Galantucci, B., Fowler, C. A., & Turvey, M. T. (2006). The motor theory of speech perception reviewed. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(3), 361-377.

Fowler, C. A., & Galantucci, B. (2005). The relation of speech perception and production. In D. B. Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), The handbook of speech perception (pp. 633-652). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Fowler, C. A., Galantucci, B., & Saltzman, E. (2002). Motor Theories of Perception. In A. M. Arbib (Ed.), Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (2nd Edition). (pp. 705-707). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Galantucci, B., Fowler, C. A., & Turvey, M. T. (2001). Event coding as feature guessing: The lessons of the motor theory of speech perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 886-887.

Other topics

Tria, F., Galantucci, B., Loreto, V. (2012). Naming a structured world: a cultural route to duality of patterning. PLoS ONE, 7(6): e37744.

Hasson, U. Ghazanfar, A. A., Galantucci, B., Garrod, S. & Keysers, C. (2012). Brain-to-brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(2), 114-121.

Galantucci, B. (2011). The cultural approach to language is ripe, let us expand our options to test it empirically - Commentary on “Modeling the cultural evolution of language” by Luc Steels. Physics of Life Reviews, 8, 363-64.

Galantucci, B., Sebanz, N. (2009). Joint action: Current perspectives. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1(2), 255-259

Schmidt, R. C., Richardson, M. J., Arsenault, C., & Galantucci, B. (2007). Visual tracking and entrainment to an environmental rhythm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(4), 860-870.

Rueckl, J. G., Galantucci, B. (2005). The locus and time course of long-term morphological priming. Journal of Language and Cognitive Processes. 20(1), 115-138.

Tabor, W., Galantucci, B., & Richardson, D. (2004). Effects of merely local syntactic coherence on sentence processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 50(4), 355-370.

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