Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

To make sense of the world around us, we must be able to segment a continual stream of
sensory inputs into discrete events. In this review, I propose that in order to comprehend …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

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 …

In need of simultaneously tackling various tasks at a fast pace, teaching is a job that requires
skillful attention allocation. Selective visual attention forms the basis of teacher's …

To bridge the gap between humans and machines in image understanding and describing,
we need further insight into how people describe a perceived scene. In this paper, we study …

Compared to generating an utterance, comprehending one is a piece of cake.
Comprehenders have information from multiple sources to draw on as they form an …

The interactive-alignment model of dialogue provides an account of dialogue at the level of
explanation normally associated with cognitive psychology. We develop our claim that …

In human vision, acuity and colour sensitivity are greatest at the point of fixation and fall off
rapidly as visual eccentricity increases. What we see, remember, and understand about a …