14th European Conference on Eye Movements
19-23 August 2007 in Potsdam, Germany

Invited Speaker

Gerry Altmann

University of York, UK

Research

My current research addresses the processes and representations that enable an unfolding sentence to be mapped onto a concurrent visual scene. Typically, participants' eyes move swiftly to objects that are named, but they can also reflect the anticipation of the unfolding language, so that they move swiftly to objects that are about to be named. My recent interests include whether such language-mediation of visual attention is automatic, and how language can mediate the representation of a concurrent (or absent) visual scene.

Selected publications

Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (in press). The real-time mediation of visual attention by language and world knowledge: Linking anticipatory (and other) eye movements to linguistic processing. Journal of Memory and Language.

Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: Semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 96(1), 23ö32.

Kamide, Y., Altmann, G.T.M., & Haywood, S. (2003). The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language. 49, 133-159.

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