Great example of how much communication we do in the silences of our conversations. Think about when you ask someone a question like "Can you give me a ride tomorrow?" and more than a second goes by. Guess what--they probably can't give you a ride!https://twitter.com/bmetrock/status/1116708497801056256 …
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Cathy, indeed! There is so much to the pause. In my AI protocols I detect and transmit ~78 pause circumstances. They have a very high signal and informational content in proper context. Interesting, the reasons are not obvious. I love this academic paper http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/papers/2006/benus_al_06.pdf …
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Cathy, A few years ago while testing some of my Pause disfluency protocols I incorporated the insights from this study. We were floored when we surfaced an early detection of ALS symptoms from a subject. It was not ALS but onset dementia.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902000/ …
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