Attention and Vision in Language Processing

Section 1: Attention and Vision in Spoken Language Comprehension and Production.- Chapter 1. Real Time Language Processing as Embodied and Embedded in Joint Action.- Chapter 2. Phonological Features Mediate Object-label Retrieval and Word Recognition in the Visual World Paradigm.- Chapter 3. The Complexity of the Visual Environment Modulates Language-mediated Eye Gaze.- Chapter 4. Visually Situated Language Comprehension in Children and in Adults.- Chapter 5. Vision and Language in Cross-linguistic Research on Sentence Production.- Section 2: Attention and Vision in Reading.- Chapter 6. Capturing Reading Processes in Connected Texts with Eye Movements and a Letter Detection Task.- Chapter 7. Reading in Thai: Visual and Attentional Processes.- Section 3: Attention and Vision in Bilingual Language Processing.- Chapter 8. Visual Cues for Language Selection in Bilinguals.- Chapter 9. In the Mind's Eye: Eye-Tracking and Multi-modal Integration during Bilingual Spoken Language Processing.- Chapter 10. Spoken Word Mediated Interference in a Visual Task: Eye Tracking Evidence from Bilinguals.- Section 4: Language Processing in a Social Context.- Chapter 11. Adjusting the Manner of Language Processing to the Social Context: Attention Allocation during Interactions with Non-native Speakers.- Chapter 12. Seeing and Believing: Social Influences on Language Processing.

Ramesh Kumar Mishra has a PhD from the University of Delhi and teaches at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Mishra has published widely in the area of psycholinguistics and cognitive science of language and has edited books in the area of language and cognition. His current research focuses on how language and other important cognitive processes like attention and vision interact during cognitive processing. Ramesh Mishra is on the editorial board of journals like Journal of Theoretical and Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Cognition and International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition. Narayanan Srinivasan is currently Professor and Head at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India. Professor Srinivasan was a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute (2006-2012). He has a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and subsequently earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, USA in 1996. He has been working at the Centre for a decade. His primary research interests are attention, perception, emotions, and consciousness. He employs multiple methodologies to study cognitive processes. Professor Srinivasan has edited six books and a special issue and has published more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings papers. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Mind, Brain, and Cognition and the associate editor of the journals, Frontiers in Cognitive Science and Psychological Studies.

Falk Huettig has a PhD in psychology from the University of York, UK. He is currently a senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and a research fellow at the Donders Centre for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Nijmegen,The Netherlands. He has published widely on the relationship between language comprehension and production and other