The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs and Beyond

by Carreiras,Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781841694009
• ISBN10: 1841694002
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-26
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This book contains eighteen chapters addressing important findings, assumptions, problems, hopes and future guidelines on the use of advanced research techniques to study the moment-by-moment mental processes that occur while a reader or listener is understanding language. The core techniques are Eyetracking and ERP, with some extensions to others such as fMRI. Eyetracking and ERPs are techniques widely used in the last two decades in the field of psycholinguistics. A vast amount of data has been collected with these two techniques that allow us to advance in our knowledge of the cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in comprehending and producing language. They also allow us to ask new questions for advancing in our theoretical knowledge. The book has been written by leading researchers in the field of psycholinguistics that are also leading experts in the use of these techniques. The book combines comprehensive overviews of the state of the art on theoretical progress and assumptions behind the use ofeye movements (reading and visual world) and ERP methods with papers that address specific research questions through the use of these techniques. It addresses not only methodological issues but also discuss the theoretical progress that has been made on understanding language processing using temporally fine-grained methods.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
On the On-Line Study of Language Comprehension	1	(14)
Manuel Carreiras
Charles Clifton, Jr.
On-Line Methods in Language Processing: Introduction and Historical Review	15	(18)
Don C. Mitchell
Eye Movements and Semantic Composition	33	(18)
Martin J. Pickering
Steven Frisson
Brian McElree
Matthew J. Traxler
Linking Eye Movements to Sentence Comprehension in Reading and Listening	51	(26)
Julie E. Boland
Lexical Predictability Effects on Eye Fixations During Reading	77	(18)
Scott A. McDonald
Richard C. Shillcock
The Empty Category PRO: Processing What Cannot Be Seen	95	(24)
Moises Betancort
Enrique Meseguer
Manuel Carreiras
Antecedent Typicality Effects in the Processing of Noun Phrase Anaphors	119	(20)
Roger P. G. van Gompel
Simon P. Liversedge
Jamie Pearson
On-Line Measures of Coreferential Processing	139	(12)
Peter C. Gordon
C. Christine Camblin
Tamara Y. Swaab
Production and Comprehension Measures in Assessing Plural Object Formation	151	(16)
Anthony J. Sanford
Patrick Sturt
Linda Moxey
Lorna Morrow
Cathy Emmott
Constituent Order Priming from Reading to Listening: A Visual-World Study	167	(20)
Christoph Scheepers
Matthew W. Crocker
The On-Line Processing of Ambiguous and Unambiguous Words in Context: Evidence from Head-Mounted Eyetracking	187	(22)
Falk Huettig
Gerry T. M. Altmann
That Is Not It and It Is Not That: Reference Resolution and Conceptual Composites	209	(20)
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Donna K. Byron
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Sentence Comprehension in a Wider Discourse: Can We Use ERPs To Keep Track of Things?	229	(42)
Jos J. A. van Berkum
Sentences in the Brain: Event-Related Potentials as Real-Time Reflections of Sentence Comprehension and Language Learning	271	(38)
Lee Osterhout
Judith McLaughlin
Albert Kim
Ralf Greenwald
Kayo Inoue
Gender or Genders Agreement?	309	(20)
Horacio Barber
Elena Salillas
Manuel Carreiras
Evidence for a Shared Mechanism in Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Sequence Processing? ERP Recordings of On-Line Function- and Content-Information Integration	329	(28)
Michel Hoen
Peter F. Dominey
Distinct Neural Correlates of Legal and Illegal Word-Order Variations in German: How Can fMRI Inform Cognitive Models of Sentence Processing?	357	(14)
Christian J. Fiebach
Matthias Schlesewsky
Ina D. Bornkessel
Angela D. Friederici
On-Line Sentence Processing: Past, Present, and Future	371	(24)
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Index	395