People often use language to guide action in the real world. These actions frequently involve objects in the immediate physical environment, and therefore engage systems responsible for visual perception and complex motor control in addition to language processing. This book explores how spoken language is comprehended and produced when a person is confronted with a visual world and a specific task to perform on it. The chapters, written by major figures in psycholinguistics and visual cognition, cover topics such as scene processing, language comprehension, language production, and the visual-world methodology. The book ties together the evolutionarily significant domains of language, vision, and action, and will be indispensable to scientists working in these areas.
Table of Contents:
F. Ferreira, J.M. Henderson, Introduction to the Integration of Language, Vision and Action. J.M. Henderson, F. Ferreira, Scene Perception for Psycholinguists. K. Rayner, S.P. Liversedge, Visual and Linguistic Processing During Eye Fixations in Reading. D.E. Irwin, Fixation Location Duration as Indices of Cognitive Processing. J.M. Findlay, Eye Scanning and Visual Search. M.J. Spivey, D.C. Richardson, S.A. Fitneva, Thinking Outside the Brain: Spatial Indices to Visual and Linguistic Information. A.S. Meyer, F. Lethaus, The Use of Eye Tracking in Studies of Sentence Generation. Z.M. Griffin, Why Look? Reasons for Eye Movements Related to Language Production. K. Bock, D.E. Irwin, D.J. Davidson, Putting First Things First. M.K. Tanenhaus, C.G. Chambers, J.E. Hanna, Referential Domains in Spoken Language Comprehension: Using Eye Movements to Bridge the Product and Action Traditions. J. Trueswell, L. Gleitman, Children's Eye Movements During Listening:Developmental Evidence for a Constraint-Based Theory of Sentence Processing. G.T.M. Altmann, Y. Kamide, Now You See It, Now You Don't: Mediating the Mapping between Language and the Visual World.
About the Author :
John Henderson, Fernanda Ferreira
Review :
"The editors of this volume are uniquely positioned, by virtue of their own complementary expertise and strong reputations, to bring together this critical group of researchers who represent the best that cognitive science has to offer on these issues. The result is certainly a book that I would like to have on my shelf." -- James T. Enns, University of British Columbia
"Eye movements provide a fascinating source of information about
mental processes, for example those involved in scene perception
and reading. Recently, there has been a huge growth in the use of
eye movements to investigate the integration of linguistic and visual
information. This book gives a thorough overview of this rapidly
developing area, and includes chapters by many leading
researchers in language production, language comprehension, and
visual cognition. It should prove to be a standard reference for a
very long time." -- Martin J. Pickering, University of Edinburgh
