Looking to understand: The coupling between speakers' and listeners' eye movements and its relationship to discourse comprehension

Cognitive Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1045-1060

  Richardson, Daniel C ^a   Dale, Rick ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Communication; Discourse; Eye movements; Human experimentation; Language understanding; Perception; Psychology; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645100313     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_29     Document Type: Article

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