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Science 16 June 1995:
Vol. 268. no. 5217, pp. 1632 - 1634
DOI: 10.1126/science.7777863
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Science, Vol 268, Issue 5217, 1632-1634
Copyright © 1995 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension

MK Tanenhaus, MJ Spivey-Knowlton, KM Eberhard, and JC Sedivy

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA.

Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from information provided by other perceptual and cognitive systems. To test the effects of relevant visual context on the rapid mental processes that accompany spoken language comprehension, eye movements were recorded with a head-mounted eye-tracking system while subjects followed instructions to manipulate real objects. Visual context influenced spoken word recognition and mediated syntactic processing, even during the earliest moments of language processing.


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