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 …

During an individual's normal interaction with the environment and other humans, visual and
linguistic signals often coincide and can be integrated very quickly. This has been clearly …

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 …

Conversation is supported by the beliefs that people have in common and the perceptual
experience that they share. The visual context of a conversation has two aspects: the …