What can eye-tracking tell us?

What eye movements can tell us about sentence comprehension.

Eye movement data have proven to be very useful for investigating human sentence processing. Eyetracking research has addressed a wide range of questions, such as recovery mechanisms following garden-pathing, the timing of processes driving comprehension, the role of anticipation and expectation in parsing, the role of semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic information, and so on. However, there are...

What Can Visual World Eye-tracking Tell Us about the Binding Theory?

A question of central importance at the interface of the grammar and the language processing system is how grammatical constraints are deployed during sentence processing. This paper focuses on how the grammatical constraints of the syntactic Binding Theory (BT)—the structural constraints on reflexives and pronouns—apply during online processing. Our study is presented against a background lite...

What Paint Can Tell Us

Objective: The notion that artistic capability increases with dementia is both novel and largely unsupported by available literature. Recent research has suggested an emergence of artistic capabilities to be a by-product of involuntary behaviour seen with dementia, as opposed to a progression in original thinking (de Souza, et al., 2010). A far more complementary explanation comes from Hanneman...

What can proteomics tell us about platelets?

More than 130 years ago, it was recognized that platelets are key mediators of hemostasis. Nowadays, it is established that platelets participate in additional physiological processes and contribute to the genesis and progression of cardiovascular diseases. Recent data indicate that the platelet proteome, defined as the complete set of expressed proteins, comprises >5000 proteins and is highly ...

Language Use: What can it tell us?