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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2019. Vol. 12, no. 1, 98–118
doi:10.17759/exppsy.2019120108
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Follow the hands of the interlocutor! (on strategies for the distribution of visual attention)

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O.V. Fedorova, I.Y. Zherdev

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Abstract

This article contributes to the development of multichannel linguistics — a new approach that explores the interaction of multiple informational channels between interlocutors, including verbal units, prosody, gestures, facial expressions, direction of gaze. The study was carried out on the material of the Russian multichannel resource “Russian pear chats and stories”, collected with the help of modern equipment, including industrial video cameras and eyetrackers for registering eye movements. Based on the quantitative and qualitative results of the study, the authors describe the distribution of visual attention of the Narrator in the situation of perception of information from two gesticulating interlocutors, as well as various styles of oculomotor activity of the Narrator.

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Keywords: multichannel linguistics, natural interaction, visual attention, gesticulation

Journal rubric: Psycholinguistics

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2019120108

Funding. This work was supported by the Russian Sience Foundation (project № 14-18-03819 “Language as is: Russian multimodal discourse”).

For citation: Fedorova O.V., Zherdev I.Y. Follow the hands of the interlocutor! (on strategies for the distribution of visual attention). Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2019. Vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 98–118. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2019120108. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Olga V. Fedorova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leading Researcher of the Institute of Linguistics of RAS, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: olga.fedorova@msu.ru

Ivan Y. Zherdev, associated researcher, software developer, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6810-9297, e-mail: ivan866@mail.ru

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