The Effect of Salience on Chinese Pun Comprehension: A Visual World Paradigm Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present study adopted the printed-word visual world paradigm to investigate the salience effect on Chinese pun comprehension. In such an experiment, participants listen to a spoken sentence while looking at a visual display of four printed words ...
Wei Zheng +4 more
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Negation in context: Evidence from the visual world paradigm [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2016 Literature assumes that negation is more difficult to understand than affirmation, but this might depend on the pragmatic context. The goal of this paper is to show that pragmatic knowledge modulates the unfolding processing of negation due to the ...
Isabel Orenes +2 more
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The Comprehension of Counterfactual Conditionals: Evidence From Eye-Tracking in the Visual World Paradigm [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Three experiments tracked participants’ eye-movements to examine the time course of comprehension of the dual meaning of counterfactuals, such as “if there had been oranges then there would have been pears.” Participants listened to conditionals while ...
Isabel Orenes +4 more
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Eye-Movement Suppression in the Visual World Paradigm [PDF]
Open MindAbstract Eye movements in the visual world paradigm are known to depend not only on linguistic input but on such factors as task, pragmatic context, affordances, etc. However, the degree to which eye movements may depend on task rather than on linguistic input is unclear.
Anna Laurinavichyute +2 more
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The Effect of Linguistic and Visual Salience in Visual World Studies [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Research using the visual world paradigm has demonstrated that visual input has a rapid effect on language interpretation tasks such as reference resolution and, conversely, that linguistic material—including verbs, prepositions and adjectives—can ...
Federica eCavicchio +2 more
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Pronouns Are as Sensitive to Structural Constraints as Reflexives in Early Processing: Evidence From Visual World Paradigm Eye-Tracking [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A number of studies in the extant literature report findings that suggest asymmetry in the way reflexive and pronoun anaphors are interpreted in the early stages of processing: that pronouns are less sensitive to structural constraints, as formulated by ...
Chung-hye Han +4 more
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Scalar and Ignorance Inferences Are Both Computed Immediately upon Encountering the Sentential Connective: The Online Processing of Sentences with Disjunction Using the Visual World Paradigm [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Accounts based on the pragmatic maxim of quantity make different predictions about the computation of scalar versus ignorance inferences. These different predictions are evaluated in two eye-tracking experiments using a visual world paradigm to assess ...
Likan Zhan
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EARLY ASSOCIATION OF PROSODIC FOCUS WITH ALLEEN ‘ONLY’: EVIDENCE FROM EYE MOVEMENTS IN THE VISUAL-WORLD PARADIGM [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In three visual-world eye tracking studies, we investigated the processing of sentences containing the focus-sensitive operator alleen ‘only’ and different pitch accents, such as the Dutch Ik heb alleen SELDERIJ aan de brandweerman gegeven ‘I only gave ...
Iris eMulders, Kriszta eSzendroi
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The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2021 Apfelbaum KS +2 more
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Detecting when timeseries differ: Using the Bootstrapped Differences of Timeseries (BDOTS) to analyze Visual World Paradigm data (and more). [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2018 Seedorff M, Oleson J, McMurray B.
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