Investigating the influence of local and personal common ground on memory for conversation using an online referential communication task.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To maintain efficiency during conversation, interlocutors form and retrieve memory representations for the shared understanding or common ground that they have with their partner. Here, an online referential communication task (RCT) was used in two experiments to examine whether the strength and type of common ground between dyads influence their ability to form and recall referential labels for images. Results from both experiments show a significant association between the strength of common ground formed between dyads for images during the RCT and their verbatim-but not semantic-recall memory for image descriptions about a week later. Participants who generated the image descriptions during the RCT also showed superior verbatim and semantic recall memory performance. In Experiment 2, a group of friends with pre-existing personal common ground were significantly more efficient in their use of words to describe images during the RCT than a group of strangers without personal common ground. However, personal common ground did not lead to enhanced recall memory performance. Together, these findings provide evidence that individuals can remember some verbatim words and phrases from conversations, and partially support the theoretical notion that common ground and memory are intricately linked conversational processes. The null findings with regard to semantic recall memory suggest that the structured nature of the RCT may have constrained the types of memory representations that individuals formed during the interaction. Findings are discussed in relation to the multidimensional nature of common ground and the importance of developing more natural conversational tasks for future work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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