{"pk":28502,"title":"Dark Forces in Language Comprehension:The Case of Neuroticism and Disgust in a Pupillometry Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We report on initial findings from a pupillometry study thatinvestigated the influence of two extra-linguistic variables,namely Neuroticism and Disgust Sensitivity, on auditory lan-guage comprehension in adults. Results suggest that: (1) Lan-guage comprehension is influenced by extra-linguistic vari-ables and individual differences; (2) the processing of differ-ent kinds of linguistic errors, as opposed to clashes with anindividual’s value or belief system, are influenced by differ-ent extra-linguistic variables; and that (3) Disgust Sensitiv-ity at least partially predicts pupillary responses to utterancesclashing with an individual’s belief system. Results are dis-cussed with regards to linguistic anticipation, cognitive effortand arousal, and resource allocation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"psycholinguistics; extra-linguistic information;individual differences; pupillometry; language comprehen-sion; personality; Disgust; neuroticism"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b4971p2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Isabell","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hubert","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Alberta","department":""},{"first_name":"Juhani","middle_name":"","last_name":"J ̈arvikivi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Alberta","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28502/galley/18373/download/"}]}