{"pk":27358,"title":"The Facilitatory Effect of Referent Gaze on Cognitive Load in Language Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper considers prediction in language processing by ex-amining the role of the visual context, and specifically, the roleof speaker referent gaze on cognitive load. We inspect the an-ticipatory visual attention during sentence processing togetherwith the cognitive load induced at the points of the gaze cue,and the linguistic referent. Employing a novel measurementof cognitive load - the Index of Cognitive Activity (Marshall,2000) allowed us to simultaneously consider both anticipatoryeye-movements and cognitive load. Our results show that thegaze cue is being followed, and considered as a relevant pieceof information, which subsequently reduces the cognitive loadon the linguistic referent. In addition, we found that consider-ing the gaze cue is in itself not costly, unless it cues an objectmismatching with the previous linguistic context.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Gaze; Cognitive Load; Index of Cognitive Activ-ity; Prediction; Eye-tracking"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d44g70j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mirjana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sekicki","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland Univeristy","department":""},{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Staudte","name_suffix":"","institution":"Saarland Univeristy","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/27358/galley/16994/download/"}]}