ArticleMemory & cognition2020
When scenes speak louder than words: Verbal encoding does not mediate the relationship between scene meaning and visual attention.
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- Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production.Cognition · 2026Article
- Objects are selected for attention based upon meaning during passive scene viewing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Searching for meaning: Local scene semantics guide attention during natural visual search in scenes.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Visual attention during seeing for speaking in healthy aging.Psychology and aging · 2023Article
- The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Look at what I can do: Object affordances guide visual attention while speakers describe potential actions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- The Language Network Is Recruited but Not Required for Nonverbal Event Semantics.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The complexity of the visual world requires that we constrain visual attention and prioritize some regions of the scene for attention over others. The current study investigated whether verbal encoding processes influence how attention is allocated in scenes. Specifically, we asked whether the advantage of scene meaning over image salience in attentional guidance is modulated by verbal encoding, given that we often use language to process information. In two experiments, 60 subjects studied scenes (N
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