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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Thematic roles define participant functions in events, but their real-world identification remains unclear.
  • The visual object-tracking system's role in identifying thematic roles is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the visual object-tracking system supports thematic role identification in push events.
  • To determine if participants can identify agent and patient roles under challenging visual conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Participants tracked one to three push events involving identical, randomly moving circles.
  • After movement, circles were colored, and participants identified their roles (e.g., 'red pushed blue').
  • Experiments included conditions like gaze fixation, concurrent tasks, and object invisibility.

Main Results:

  • Participants successfully identified agent and patient roles above chance levels, even with identical objects.
  • Performance remained high under difficult tracking conditions, including temporary invisibility.
  • Results align with known object-tracking capacity limits and attentional strategies.

Conclusions:

  • The visual object-tracking system can maintain thematic role information for visually identical objects.
  • This system enables mapping of role fillers to their correct sentence positions, suggesting temporary storage of thematic role features.