Exploring psycholinguistic eye tracking methodologies and data analytic techniques

Start date: 1 January 2014
End date: 31 December 2015
Funder: British Academy
Primary investigator: Professor Catherine Davies
External co-investigators: Helene Kreysa, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck, Gerry Altmann

Value

£9,986

Partners and collaborators

University of Jena; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; University of York

Description

Eye-tracking allows researchers to probe the temporal dynamics underlying language processing. It is a primary source of data in psycholinguistics. Since the analysis of eye-tracking data is particularly complex, it requires cutting-edge techniques. With international partners, this grant allowed me to develop my quantitative skills, enabling me to become an independent user of eye-tracking methodologies. It also provided instruction in advanced statistical analyses.

Publications and outputs

Davies, C. & Kreysa, H. (2018) Look before you speak: Children’s integration of visual information into informative referring expressions. Journal of Child Language, 45, 1116-1143. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000918000120

Davies, C. & Kreysa, H. 2017. Looking at a contrast object before speaking boosts referential informativeness, but is not essential. Acta Psychologica, 178, 87-99. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.06.001