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ArticleTopics in cognitive science2025

Perceptual Clauses as Units of Production in Visual Descriptions.

Fernanda Ferreira, Madison Barker

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2 authors.

Fernanda FerreiraDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Davis.ORCID 0000-0002-9349-9300
Madison BarkerDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Davis.

Funding

Multi-Utterance Language ProductionR01HD100516 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI FERREIRA, FERNANDA · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
Effects of Disfluencies on Language ComprehensionR01MH065310 · NIMH · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FERREIRA, FERNANDA · 2004 to 2006
$701k
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01HD100516NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD100516NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH065310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Describing our visual environments is challenging because although an enormous amount of information is simultaneously available to the visual system, the language channel must impose a linear order on that information. Moreover, the production system is at least moderately incremental, meaning that it interleaves planning and speaking processes. Here, we address how the operations of these two cognitive systems are coordinated given their different characteristics. We propose the concept of a perceptual clause, defined as an interface representation that allows the visual and linguistic systems to exchange information. The perceptual clause serves as the input to the language formulator, which translates the representation into a linguistic sequence. Perceptual clauses capture speakers' ability to describe visual scenes coherently while at the same time taking advantage of the incremental abilities of the language production system.

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LanguagePsycholinguisticsSpeechVisual PerceptionHumansLinguisticsLanguage productionLinearizationScene semanticsSerial order

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PMID38781450
PMCPMC13024626

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