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Koralus, Philipp Elias – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation presents a theory of semantics and pragmatics for both language and vision. I focus on sentences including proper names, descriptions, and attitude report verbs, and on the Necker cube. I propose the Open Instruction Theory (OIT), according to which the linguistic meaning of a sentence and the semantic contribution of visual…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language
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Calvo, Manuel G.; Lang, Peter J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The authors investigated whether emotional pictorial stimuli are especially likely to be processed in parafoveal vision. Pairs of emotional and neutral visual scenes were presented parafoveally (2.1[degrees] or 2.5[degrees] of visual angle from a central fixation point) for 150-3,000 ms, followed by an immediate recognition test (500-ms delay).…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pictorial Stimuli, Vision, Eye Movements