We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Over the last 25 years, the visual world paradigm has enabled discoveries and theoretical
advances in spoken language processing. However, the intuitive interpretation of fixations in …

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 …

Spatial language descriptions, such as The bottle is over the glass, direct the attention of the
hearer to particular aspects of the visual world. This paper asks how they do so, and what …

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

In the visual world paradigm as used in psycholinguistics, eye gaze (ie visual orienting) is
measured in order to draw conclusions about linguistic processing. However, current …

In this chapter we consider the question of whether the language one speaks affects one's
thinking. We discuss arguments showing that language cannot be taken to be the vehicle of …

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 …

The goal of much psycholinguistic research is to understand the processes by which
linguistic input is mapped onto a hearers mental representation of his or her world. Within …

In the visual world paradigm, participants are more likely to fixate a visual referent that has
some semantic relationship with a heard word, than they are to fixate an unrelated referent …