Visual Gender Cues Elicit Agent Expectations: Different Mismatches in Situated Language Comprehension.

摘要: Previous research has shown that visual cues (depicted events) can have a strong effect on language comprehension and guide attention more than stereotypical thematic role knowledge (‘depicted / recent event preference’). We examined to which extent this finding generalizes another cue (gender from the hands of an agent) it is modulated by picture-sentence incongruence. Participants inspected videos performing action, then listened non-canonical German OVS sentences while we monitored their eye gaze faces two potential subjects agents (one male one female). In Experiment 1, sentential verb phrase matched (vs. mismatched) video action in 2, subject gender agent’s video. Additionally, both experiments manipulated stereotypicality congruence (i.e. whether described actions or mismatched video). overall preferred inspect target agent face whose seen previous video), suggesting depicted preference observed studies cues. Stereotypicality match did not seem modulate behavior. However, when there was mismatch between sentence video, participants tended look away (post-verbally for action-verb mismatches at final region hand – mismatches), outright incongruence