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Linguistic representations of visual events
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Linguistic representations of visual events
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Kharkwal
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Gaurav
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Gaurav Kharkwal
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Karin
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Karin Stromswold
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Jacob
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Jacob Feldman
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Eileen Kowler
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2011
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2011-10
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This thesis explores the nature of linguistic representations that correspond to verbal descriptions of events. In two experiments, participants watched captioned videos and decided whether the captions accurately described the videos. In the videos, two geo-metric shapes moved around the screen. [In half of the trials, the geometric shapes had "eyes."] The verbs used to describe the shapes' actions were either source-to-goal verbs (chase, follow, trail ) or goal-to-source verbs (flee, lead, guide). Sometimes the captions were active sentences (e.g., The circle is chasing the square) and sometimes passive sentences (The square is chased by the circle). Analyses of participants' reaction times indicate that the level of linguistic and visual detail encoded reflected the complexity of the task participants had to perform. These results are consistent with "good enough" models of language processing (e.g., Ferreira and Henderson (2007)) in which people process sentences heuristically or syntactically depending on the nature of the task they must perform.
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Psychology
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v, 28 p. : ill.
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Gaurav Kharkwal
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Visual literacy
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Psycholinguistics
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ETD graduate
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2011-09-26 21:39:19
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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