The division of linguistic labour for offloading conceptual understanding

Edgar J. Andrade-Lotero; Julián M. Ortiz-Duque; Javier A. Velasco-García; Robert L. Goldstone

doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0360

The division of linguistic labour for offloading conceptual understanding

Título traducido de la contribución: La división de la labor lingüística para la descarga de comprensión conceptual

Edgar J. Andrade-Lotero, Julián M. Ortiz-Duque, Javier A. Velasco-García, Robert L. Goldstone

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La división del trabajo lingüístico (DLL), inicialmente teorizada por filósofos, ha atraído la atención de los científicos cognitivos en la última década. En contra de algunas versiones filosóficas controvertidas de la DLL, proponemos que se trata de una estrategia de la mente extendida para descargar la comprensión conceptual en otras personas. En este artículo, exploramos empíricamente esta propuesta proporcionando un paradigma experimental exploratorio para buscar los mecanismos que subyacen al DLL y cómo pueden funcionar en la práctica. Desarrollamos un experimento entre sujetos en el que los participantes tenían que categorizar dos pares de razas de perro altamente confundibles después de haber recibido entrenamiento de categorización en un solo par de razas. En el grupo de tratamiento, los participantes se agruparon en díadas y se les permitió interactuar entre sí mediante las etiquetas de estas cuatro razas de perros. En sus preguntas a los "expertos" formados, los principiantes utilizaron con frecuencia etiquetas para referirse a razas que no podían identificar por sí mismos. Los expertos se mostraron muy receptivos a las consultas de sus compañeros noveles, y los índices de consulta de los dos miembros de una díada se correlacionaron positivamente. El fracaso en la categorización independiente y el éxito en la categorización por descarga condujeron a un aumento posterior de las consultas por parte de los noveles, lo que indica un uso adaptativo de la descarga. Los autoinformes sobre el conocimiento de la raza fueron mayores para los expertos dentro de una díada en comparación con los expertos aislados.
Este artículo forma parte del número temático "Conceptos en interacción: compromiso social y experiencias internas".

Título traducido de la contribución	La división de la labor lingüística para la descarga de comprensión conceptual
Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Número de artículo	20210360
Publicación	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volumen	378
N.º	1870
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0360
Estado	Publicada - dic. 26 2022

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