Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-184

  Papafragou, Anna ^a   Hulbert, Justin ^b   Trueswell, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic differences; Eye tracking; Greek; Language and thought; Motion; Spatial language; Visual world

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; GREECE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY; MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44249121452     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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