Lecture | LACG Meetings
The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
- Date
- Thursday 16 November 2023
- Time
- Series
- LACG Meetings
- Location
- Hybrid event | Lipsius 2.12, MS Teams
- Room
- Lipsius 2.12
Abstract
For a complete understanding of how the brain processes language, it is crucial to study language in naturalistic settings, where language is embedded in dynamic and multimodal contexts and speech is full of disfluencies. The prediction of language is one mechanism that is thought to facilitate our incredible ability to process speech so quickly. Evidence for this comes from the fact that a listener’s eye-gaze moves towards a referent before it is mentioned if the sentence context is highly constraining, rendering the noun predictable. I will present a line of work where we have been using EEG, eye tracking and virtual reality to investigate to what extent the linguistic, visual and pragmatic contexts can be combined to predict upcoming language in naturalistic settings.
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