Main description:

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of attentional and visual processes involved in language comprehension. Key concerns include how linguistic and non-linguistic processes jointly determine language comprehension and production and how the linguistic system interfaces with perceptual systems and attention.

Language scientists have traditionally considered language in isolation from other cognitive and perceptual systems such as attention, vision and memory. In recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that language comprehension must be studied within interaction contexts. The study of multimodal interactions and attentional processes during language processing has thus become an important theoretical focus that guides many research programs in psycholinguistics and related fields.

Feature:

Explores language with regard to multimodal interactions which are a fundamental characteristic of the human mind

Discusses cutting-edge issues in current cognitive science and linguistics

Highly distinguished contributors from leading labs around the world

Back cover:

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of attentional and visual processes involved in language comprehension. Key concerns include how linguistic and non-linguistic processes jointly determine language comprehension and production, and how the linguistic system interfaces with perceptual systems and attention.

Language scientists have traditionally considered language in isolation from other cognitive and perceptual systems such as attention, vision, and memory. In recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that language comprehension must be studied within interaction contexts. The study of multimodal interactions and attentional processes during language processing has thus become an important theoretical focus that guides many research programs in psycholinguistics and related fields.

Contents:

Section 1: Attention and Vision in Spoken Language Comprehension and Production.- Chapter 1. Real Time Language Processing as Embodied and Embedded in Joint Action.- Chapter 2. Phonological Features Mediate Object-label Retrieval and Word Recognition in the Visual World Paradigm.- Chapter 3. The Complexity of the Visual Environment Modulates Language-mediated Eye Gaze.- Chapter 4. Visually Situated Language Comprehension in Children and in Adults.- Chapter 5. Vision and Language in Cross-linguistic Research on Sentence Production.- Section 2: Attention and Vision in Reading.- Chapter 6. Capturing Reading Processes in Connected Texts with Eye Movements and a Letter Detection Task.- Chapter 7. Reading in Thai: Visual and Attentional Processes.- Section 3: Attention and Vision in Bilingual Language Processing.- Chapter 8. Visual Cues for Language Selection in Bilinguals.- Chapter 9. In the Mind’s Eye: Eye-Tracking and Multi-modal Integration during Bilingual Spoken Language Processing.- Chapter 10. Spoken Word Mediated Interference in a Visual Task: Eye Tracking Evidence from Bilinguals.- Section 4: Language Processing in a Social Context.- Chapter 11. Adjusting the Manner of Language Processing to the Social Context: Attention Allocation during Interactions with Non-native Speakers.- Chapter 12. Seeing and Believing: Social Influences on Language Processing.