PSY 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Honda N360, Causal Inference, Parsing

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY 3120
• Professor: Seiffert Adriane

Document Summary

Both syntax and semantics are important to understand parsing. Context matter, meaning of the sentence determines how it will be parsed so that syntax and meaning interact. Eye movements experiments show: fixation is longer at the end of a phrase, regressive eye movements occur. Parsing errors are marked by both longer fixation and regressive eye movements. Put the apple in the towel in the box question. Depends on how many apples you are given at the start. Your eyes track different parts of the scene based on the part of the sentence. Results: eye movement shows the sentence parsing is different. Conclusion: semantic information from the visual world influences sentence parsing, supporting the interactionist approach. Situation model: a mental representation of what a story is about that is held in the mind of the speaker and built in the mind of the listener.