Anticipatory baseline effects and information integration in visual world studies

被引:35
作者
Barr, Dale J. [1 ]
Gann, Timothy M. [2 ]
Pierce, Russell S. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Glasgow, Inst Neurosci & Psychol, Glasgow G12 8QB, Lanark, Scotland
[2] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Psychol, Riverside, CA 92501 USA
关键词
Eyetracking; Visual world; Spoken language comprehension; SPOKEN-LANGUAGE; PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; MEMORY;
D O I
10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.09.011
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Researchers often conduct visual world studies to investigate how listeners integrate linguistic information with prior context. Such studies are likely to generate anticipatory baseline effects (ABEs), differences in listeners' expectations about what a speaker might mention that exist before a critical speech stimulus is presented. ABEs show that listeners have attended to and accessed prior contextual information in time to influence the processing of the critical speech stimulus. However, further evidence is required to show that the information actually did influence subsequent processing. ABEs can compromise the validity of inferences about information integration if they are not appropriately controlled. We discuss four solutions: statistical estimation, experimental control, elimination of "on-target" trials, and neutral gaze. An experiment compares the performance of these solutions, and suggests that the elimination of on-target trials introduces bias in the direction of ABEs, due to the statistical phenomenon of regression toward the mean. We conclude that statistical estimation, possibly coupled with experimental control, offers the most valid and least biased solution. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:201 / 207
页数:7
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