{"pk":26929,"title":"An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signedlanguage comprehension","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Language comprehension in grounded contexts involves in-tegrating visual and linguistic information through decisionsabout visual fixation. But when the visual signal also con-tains information about the language source – as in the caseof written text or sign language – how do we decide where tolook? Here, we hypothesize that eye movements during lan-guage comprehension represent an adaptive response. Usingtwo case studies, we show that, compared to English-learners,young signers delayed their gaze shifts away from a languagesource, were more accurate with these shifts, and produced asmaller proportion of nonlanguage-driven shifts (E1). Next,we present a well-controlled, confirmatory experiment, show-ing that English-speaking adults produced fewer nonlanguage-driven shifts when processing printed text compared to spokenlanguage (E2). Together, these data suggest that people adaptto the value of seeking different information in order to in-crease the chance of rapid and accurate language understand-ing.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"eye movements; language processing;information-seeking; American Sign Language"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1692q9pw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kyle","middle_name":"","last_name":"MacDonald","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Aviva","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blonder","name_suffix":"","institution":"Oberlin College","department":""},{"first_name":"Virginia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marchman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Anne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fernald","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26929/galley/16565/download/"}]}