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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

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  • Previous research indicates language comprehension can be egocentric.
  • Egocentricity in language prediction is less understood, especially in ambiguous contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether comprehenders predict egocentrically when context is unclear.
  • To determine if egocentric biases influence prediction during sentence processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a visual-world eye-tracking paradigm.
  • Participants heard sentences with gender-neutral pronouns and viewed objects.
  • Monitored eye movements to assess object fixations based on plausibility and gender-stereotypical compatibility.

Main Results:

  • Participants fixated plausible targets more than distractors.
  • No evidence of egocentric prediction was found; participants did not preferentially fixate gender-stereotypical objects.

Conclusions:

  • Comprehenders do not default to an egocentric perspective during prediction, even in ambiguous situations.
  • Prediction in language processing appears to be non-egocentric, irrespective of contextual clarity.