While there is a growing body of psycholinguistic experimental research on mappings
between language and vision on a word and sentence level, there are almost no studies on …

In this thesis, I connect two disciplines, linguistics and vision research, and combine two
methods, spoken language protocols and eye movement protocols, in order to cast light on …

Two experiments explored the mapping between language and mental representations of
visual scenes. In both experiments, participants viewed, for example, a scene depicting a …

We cannot directly uncover the contents of our mind but we can come closer to cognitive
processes via overt manifestations. I am interested in how speakers perceive, conceptualise …

The theoretical notion of 'construal'captures the idea that the way in which we describe a
scene reflects our conceptualization of it. Relying on the concept of ception–which conjoins …

In his book Visual thinking, Arnheim (1969) writes:“... cognitive operations called thinking are
not the privilege of mental processes above and beyond perception but the essential …

Our goal in this chapter is to provide a resource for researchers using free-viewing
eyetracking and the visual world paradigm to study language comprehension and …

How can a visual environment shape our utterances? A variety of visual and conceptual
factors appear to affect sentence production, such as the visual cueing of patients or agents …

Eye movements have been one of the most widely used response measures in studies of
written word recognition and sentence reading since the classic work of McConkie and …

Abstract Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively
recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not …