New Course For Spring Psycholinguistics Eye Tracking

Dr. Juhani Järvikivi will offer a 3-week truncated introductory course on the use of eye movement research in psycholinguistics in the Spring 2013. The course starts May 6 and runs daily, 9:30 am to 11:55 am, and ends May 24. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the various eye-tracking techniques and measures used to study language processing at various linguistic levels (from speech perception to syntax and discourse), and also offer an overview of the various uses of ET outside current psycholinguistics. Both reading and spoken language research is discussed, but the emphasis will on the use of eye movements to track language comprehension in speech in real world/visual environments (the Visual World Paradigm). The course is suitable, but not limited to, undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Linguistics, Psychology and Language students. There is a graduate student component, LING 599 A2. Prerequisite for this course is LING 101.