ReviewActa psychologica2011
A goal-based perspective on eye movements in visual world studies.
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- Cortical Tracking of Speech: Toward Collaboration between the Fields of Signal and Sentence Processing.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
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- What the Eyes Hear: An Eye-Tracking Study on Phonological Awareness in Emirati Arabic.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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- Detecting time-specific differences between temporal nonlinear curves: Analyzing data from the visual world paradigm.Statistical methods in medical research · 2017Article
- Observational Word Learning: Beyond Propose-But-Verify and Associative Bean Counting.Journal of memory and language · 2016Article
- The Flexibility of Conceptual Pacts: Referring Expressions Dynamically Shift to Accommodate New Conceptualizations.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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There is an emerging literature on visual search in natural tasks suggesting that task-relevant goals account for a remarkably high proportion of saccades, including anticipatory eye movements. Moreover, factors such as "visual saliency" that otherwise affect fixations become less important when they are bound to objects that are not relevant to the task at hand. We briefly review this literature and discuss the implications for task-based variants of the visual world paradigm. We argue that the results and their likely interpretation may profoundly affect the "linking hypothesis" between language processing and the location and timing of fixations in task-based visual world studies. We outline a goal-based linking hypothesis and discuss some of the implications for how we conduct visual world studies, including how we interpret and analyze the data. Finally, we outline some avenues of research, including examples of some classes of experiments that might prove fruitful for evaluating the effects of goals in visual world experiments and the viability of a goal-based linking hypothesis.
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