ArticleLanguage, cognition and neuroscience2018
Prediction in a visual language: real-time sentence processing in American Sign Language across development.
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- Predictive Processing in Sign Languages: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Tracking effects of age of sign language acquisition and phonology in American Sign Language sentence processing.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Reduced on-line speech gesture integration during multimodal language processing in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury: Evidence from eye-tracking.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Temporary ambiguity and memory for the context of spoken language in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Brain and language · 2024Article
- Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure.Journal of memory and language · 2022Article
- Temporary ambiguity and memory for the context of spoken language.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Visual attention for linguistic and non-linguistic body actions in non-signing and native signing children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers' access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Rapid development of perceptual gaze control in hearing native signing Infants and children.Developmental science · 2021Article
- Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages.Cognitive science · 2021Article
- Lexical Recognition in Deaf Children Learning American Sign Language: Activation of Semantic and Phonological Features of Signs.Language learning · 2020Article
- Semantic processing of adjectives and nouns in American Sign Language: effects of reference ambiguity and word order across development.Journal of cultural cognitive science · 2019Article
- Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Real-time lexical comprehension in young children learning American Sign Language.Developmental science · 2018Article
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Prediction during sign language comprehension may enable signers to integrate linguistic and non-linguistic information within the visual modality. In two eyetracking experiments, we investigated American Sign language (ASL) semantic prediction in deaf adults and children (aged 4-8 years). Participants viewed ASL sentences in a visual world paradigm in which the sentence-initial verb was either neutral or constrained relative to the sentence-final target noun. Adults and children made anticipatory looks to the target picture before the onset of the target noun in the constrained condition only, showing evidence for semantic prediction. Crucially, signers alternated gaze between the stimulus sign and the target picture only when the sentential object could be predicted from the verb. Signers therefore engage in prediction by optimizing visual attention between divided linguistic and referential signals. These patterns suggest that prediction is a modality-independent process, and theoretical implications are discussed.
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