Coco, Moreno

Keller, Frank

Coco, Moreno I.

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Scan Patterns on Visual Scenes predict Sentence Production

Most everyday tasks involve multiple modalities, which raises the question of howthe processing of these modalities is coordinated by the cognitive system. In thispaper, we focus on the coordination of visual attention and linguistic processingduring speaking. Previous research has shown that objects in a visual scene are fixated before they are mentioned, leading us to hypothesize that the scan pattern of a participant can be used to predict what they will say. We test this hypothesis using a data set of cued scene descriptions of photo-realistic scenes. We demonstrate that similar scan patterns are correlated with similar sentences, within and between visual scenes; and that this correlation holds for three phases of the language production process (target identification, sentence planning, and speaking). We also present a simple algorithm that uses scan patterns to accurately predict associated sentences by utilizing similarity-based retrieval

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Scan patterns on visual scenes predict sentence

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Scan patterns on visual scenes predict sentence

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