Call for abstracts

Eye-tracking serves as a powerful tool to uncover the intricate interplay between language and cognition (Yarbus, 1967; Henderson et al., 2007; Huettig et al., 2011; Conklin & Pellicer-Sánchez, 2022), providing a window onto the cognitive processes involved in understanding and producing language, both at the level of a given speech community or at the individual level (e.g. when addressing cognitive (dis)abilities, or linguistic proficiency). By monitoring eye movements, researchers can examine, in real-time, how attention is allocated during linguistic tasks, shedding light, for instance, on:

  1. Language processing dynamics for people with language disorder: Eye-tracking helps identify patterns in gaze behaviour that correspond to different stages of cognitive processing, including for populations with language disorders such as aphasia (Dickey, 2007; Yee et al., 2008) or dyslexia (Desroches et al., 2006; Huettig & Brouwer, 2015).

  2. Lexical and Semantic Access: Studying eye movements reveals the time course of accessing lexical and semantic information (Sedivy et al., 1999; De Groot et al., 2016)

  3. Syntactic Processing: Eye-tracking research uncovers the intricacies of syntactic processing, including how (complex) sentence structures influence parsing and comprehension(Tanenhaus et al., 1995; Clifton & Staub, 2011). This also applies to second language acquisition (e.g., Frenck-Mestre, 2005).

  4. Pragmatic Inferences: Eye-tracking is particularly relevant to study how context and background knowledge influence language understanding (Ryskin et al., 2019; Sun & Breheny, 2020)

  5. Discourse Processing: Eye-tracking is used to investigate how readers or listeners maintain discourse coherence and track referential expressions (see Altamimi & Conklin (2024) ou Robert & Siyanova (2013) on L2 speakers).

  6. Language Acquisition: Eye-tracking allows researchers to observe how children and adults process language input differently and how this develops with language experience (e.g., Ambridge & Rowland, 2013; Joseph et al., 2013; Mani & Huettig, 2014; Tribushinina & Mak, 2016)

  7. Linguistic relativity: Researchers rely on eye-tracking to measure the cognitive impact of linguistic differences on howthe speakers allocate their visual attention in both verbal and non-verbal contexts (e.g., as for Motion events, see Hohenstein, 2005; Papafragou et al., 2008; Soroli & Hickmann, 2010; Soroli et al., 2019; Lesuisse, 2022; Lesuisse & Lemmens, 2023).

 

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for the upcoming conference entitled"Gazing into Language: Unveiling Cognitive Processes with Eye-Tracking". This interdisciplinary event aims to explore the diverse applications of eye-tracking methodologies in linguistics research. Researchers are encouraged to submit contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Eye-tracking studies on language comprehension and production

  • Eye-tracking in discourse analysis and pragmatics

  • Eye movements in bilingualism and language acquisition

  • Cross-linguistic differences in eye gazing patterns

  • Eye-tracking applications in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

  • Technology and methodological advancements in eye-tracking research

  • Cognitive and computational models using eye-tracking data

 

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words.

Abstracts should include 3-5 keywords.

Presentations (20min) can be in English or in French.

 

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: May, 17th 2024 May, 24th 2024

Notification of Acceptance: June, 14th 2024

Conference Date: September, 20th 2024

 

References

 

Altamimi, A. & K. Conklin. (2024) The Effect of Congruency and Frequency of Exposures on the Learning of L2 Binomials. Languages. 9(1):9.

Ambridge, B. & C.F. Rowland. (2013). Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition. WIREs Cogn. Sci. 4, 149–168.

Sun C. & R. Breheny. (2020). Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation of conflicting findings from visual-world eye-tracking studies. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35:8, 949-979.

Clifton, C. & A. Staub. (2011). Syntactic influences on eye movements during reading. In S. Liversedge, I. Gilchrist, S. Everling (eds.) Oxford Handbook on Eye Movements. Oxford University Press.

Conklin, K. & A. Pellicer-Sánchez. (2022). Eye-tracking In : S. Li, P. Hiver & M. Papi (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences. N-Y : Routledge. 441-453.

De Groot, F., F. Huettig & C. Olivers. (2016). When meaning matters: The temporal dynamics of semantic influences on visual attention. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 42, 180–196.

Desroches, A.S., M.F. Joanisse & E.K. Robertson. (2006). Specific phonological impairments in dyslexia revealed by eyetracking. Cognition. 100, B32–B42.

Dickey, M., J. Choy, & C. Thompson. (2007). Real-time comprehension of wh- movement in aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking while listening. Brain Lang. 100, 1–22.

Frenck-Mestre, C. (2005). Eye-movement recording as a tool for studying syntactic processing in a second language: a review of methodologies and experimental findings. Second Language Research. 21(2), 175–198.

Henderson, J. M., J. R. Brockmole, M. S Catelhano & M. Mack. (2007). Visual saliency does not account for eye-movements during visual search in real-world scenes In R. P. G. Van Gompel, M. H. Fisher, W. S. Murray and R. L. Hill. (eds.) Eye-movements: a window on mind and brain. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 537-562.

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Huettig, F. & S. Brouwer. (2015). Delayed Anticipatory Spoken Language Processing in Adults with Dyslexia—Evidence from Eye-tracking. Dyslexia 21, 97–122.

Huettig, F., J. Rommers, & A. Meyer. (2011). Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: A review and critical evaluation. Acta Psychol. 137, 151–171.

Joseph, S., K. Nation, & S. Liversedge. (2013). Using Eye Movements to Investigate Word Frequency Effects in Children’s Sentence Reading. Sch. Psychol. Rev. 42, 207–222.

Lesuisse, M. (2022). Exploring the conceptualisation of locative events in French, English and Dutch: Insights from eye-tracking on two recognition tasks. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association/Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik, 10, 121–158.

Lesuisse M & M. Lemmens. (2023). Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences. Language and Cognition. Published online. 1-29.

Mani, N. & F. Huettig. (2014). Word reading skill predicts anticipation of upcoming spoken language input: A study of children developing proficiency in reading. J. Exp. Child Psychol. 126, 264–279.

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Roberts, L. & A. Siyanova. (2013). Using eye-tracking to investigate topics in L2 acquisition and L2 sentence and discourse processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35(2), 213-235.

Ryskin, R., C. Kurumada, & S. Brown-Schmidt (2019). Information Integration in Modulation of Pragmatic Inferences During Online Language Comprehension. Cogn Sci. 00: 1–35.

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Tribushinina, E. & W. Mak. (2016). Three-year-olds can predict a noun based on an attributive adjective: Evidence from eye-tracking. J. Child Lang. 2016, 43, 425–441.

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Yee, E., S. Blumstein & J. Sedivy. (2008). Lexical-Semantic Activation in Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia: Evidence from Eye Movements. J. Cogn. Neurosci., 20, 592–612.
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