Eye Tracking in Language and Context
A special issue of Journal of Eye Movement Research (ISSN 1995-8692).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 199
Editors
Interests: eye movements; contextual constraint; reading; word recognition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Eye Tracking in Language and Context”, calls for any empirical research that applies eye-tracking methodologies to studying the effects of context on language processing. The precise monitoring and analysis of eye movement behavior offers a vast assortment of avenues for understanding the coordination of perceptual-motor skills, cognitive abilities, and mental representations during language processing tasks. Despite many decades of investigation into the impact of context on language processing at the sub-lexical, lexical-semantic, sentence and discourse levels of representation, there are still numerous long-standing yet unresolved theoretical debates on the role of contextual factors in language comprehension, production, and acquisition.
The Special Issue aims to explore questions regarding the influence of context on language across various populations using a variety of conceptual frameworks that take advantage of eye-tracking technology and eye-movement measures in empirical research. Areas of interest include research on how language processing unfolds across diverse linguistic, social, digital, occupational, and situational contexts. Topics may also include research that utilizes behavioral measures, LLMs, and other forms of AI to refine the general understanding of human language processing or develop eye-movement-based applications of these technologies. Research submissions incorporating both typical and unconventional research paradigms in eye tracking are encouraged. Submissions that use eye-tracking methodology to examine the educational, institutional, or societal implications of contextual effects on language processing and learning more broadly are encouraged.
Dr. Patrick Plummer
Dr. Bernhard Angele
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eye movements
- language processing
- semantic context
- situational context
- task effects
- word recognition
- sentence processing
- discourse processing
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