Title |
Mechanisms and Representations of Language-Mediated Visual Attention
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00394 |
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Authors |
Falk Huettig, Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Christian N. L. Olivers |
Abstract |
The experimental investigation of language-mediated visual attention is a promising way to study the interaction of the cognitive systems involved in language, vision, attention, and memory. Here we highlight four challenges for a mechanistic account of this oculomotor behavior: the levels of representation at which language-derived and vision-derived representations are integrated; attentional mechanisms; types of memory; and the degree of individual and group differences. Central points in our discussion are (a) the possibility that local microcircuitries involving feedforward and feedback loops instantiate a common representational substrate of linguistic and non-linguistic information and attention; and (b) that an explicit working memory may be central to explaining interactions between language and visual attention. We conclude that a synthesis of further experimental evidence from a variety of fields of inquiry and the testing of distinct, non-student, participant populations will prove to be critical. |
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