Full Title: Gazing into Language: Unveiling Cognitive Processes with Eye-Tracking
Short Title: Gazing into Language

Date: 20-Sep-2024 - 20-Sep-2024
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Mégane LESUISSE
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://gazing-into-language.sciencesconf.org

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 17-May-2024

Meeting Description:

We invite submissions for the upcoming conference entitled "Gazing into Language: Unveiling Cognitive Processes with Eye-Tracking". This interdisciplinary event aims to explore the diverse applications of eye-tracking methodologies in linguistics research. Researchers are encouraged to submit contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Eye-tracking studies on language comprehension and production
• Eye-tracking in discourse analysis and pragmatics
• Eye movements in bilingualism and language acquisition
• Cross-linguistic differences in eye gazing patterns
• Eye-tracking applications in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
• Technology and methodological advancements in eye-tracking research
• Cognitive and computational models using eye-tracking data

Invited keynote: Prof. Kathy Conklin, University of Nottingham.

Call for Papers:

Eye-tracking serves as a powerful tool to uncover the intricate interplay between language and cognition (Yarbus, 1967; Henderson et al., 2007; Huettig et al., 2011; Conklin & Pellicer-Sánchez, 2022), providing a window onto the cognitive processes involved in understanding and producing language, both at the level of a given speech community or at the individual level (e.g. when addressing cognitive (dis)abilities, or linguistic proficiency). By monitoring eye movements, researchers can examine, in real-time, how attention is allocated during linguistic tasks, shedding light, for instance, on:
1. Language processing dynamics for people with language disorder: Eye-tracking helps identify patterns in gaze behaviour that correspond to different stages of cognitive processing, including for populations with language disorders such as aphasia (Dickey, 2007; Yee et al., 2008) or dyslexia (Desroches et al., 2006; Huettig & Brouwer, 2015).
2. Lexical and Semantic Access: Studying eye movements reveals the time course of accessing lexical and semantic information (Sedivy et al., 1999; De Groot et al., 2016)
3. Syntactic Processing: Eye-tracking research uncovers the intricacies of syntactic processing, including how (complex) sentence structures influence parsing and comprehension (Tanenhaus et al., 1995; Clifton & Staub, 2011). This also applies to second language acquisition (e.g., Frenck-Mestre, 2005).
4. Pragmatic Inferences: Eye-tracking is particularly relevant to study how context and background knowledge influence language understanding (Ryskin et al., 2019; Sun & Breheny, 2020)
5. Discourse Processing: Eye-tracking is used to investigate how readers or listeners maintain discourse coherence and track referential expressions (see Altamimi & Conklin (2024) or Robert & Siyanova (2013) on L2 speakers).
6. Language Acquisition: Eye-tracking allows researchers to observe how children and adults process language input differently and how this develops with language experience (e.g., Ambridge & Rowland, 2013; Joseph et al., 2013; Mani & Huettig, 2014; Tribushinina & Mak, 2016)
7. Linguistic relativity: Researchers rely on eye-tracking to measure the cognitive impact of linguistic differences on how the speakers allocate their visual attention in both verbal and non-verbal contexts (e.g., as for Motion events, see Hohenstein, 2005; Papafragou et al., 2008; Soroli & Hickmann, 2010; Soroli et al., 2019; Lesuisse, 2022; Lesuisse & Lemmens, 2023).

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be no more than 400 words.
Abstracts should include 3-5 keywords.
Presentations (20min) can be in English or in French.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: May, 17th 2024
Notification of Acceptance: June, 14th 2024
Conference Date: September, 20th 2024

Conference Location: Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France.

Conference website: https://gazing-into-language.sciencesconf.org

*Free participation, registration required*