Language-driven anticipatory eye movements in virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Predictive language processing is often studied by measuring eye movements as participants look at objects on a computer screen while they listen to spoken sentences. This variant of the visual-world paradigm has revealed that information encountered by a listener at a spoken verb can give rise to anticipatory eye movements to a target object, which is taken to indicate that people predict upcoming words. The ecological validity of such findings remains questionable, however, because these computer experiments used two-dimensional stimuli that were mere abstractions of real-world objects. Here we present a visual-world paradigm study in a three-dimensional (3-D) immersive virtual reality environment. Despite significant changes in the stimulus materials and the different mode of stimulus p

SUBMITTER: Eichert N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990548 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature