Michael J. Spivey
Professor
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Office Phone: (209) 228-7742
Email: spivey@ucmerced.edu
My lab's research interests include the interaction between language and vision, sentence processing, word recognition, visual attention, visual memory, eye movements, and computational modeling. Using an eyetracker that a subject wears on his/her head, and simultaneously recording the streaming x,y coordinates of their computer-mouse movements, my lab gets an online measure of some of the probabilistic representations (or "tentative interpretations") that get computed in real-time as the subject attempts to integrate various sources of visual and/or linguistic information. An example finding from this work is that spoken word recognition and syntactic parsing are immediately influenced by relevant visual context -- thus compromising strict modular theories of language processing. This, and related, work is described in my book, The Continuity of Mind (2007, Oxford University Press).
Selected Publications:
Spivey, M. J., Anderson, S. E., Dale, R. (2009). The phase transition in human cognition. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 5, 197-220.
Spivey M. J. & Anderson, S. E. (2008). On a compatibility between emergentism and reductionism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 20, 239-245.
Lupyan, G. & Spivey, M. (2008). Perceptual processing is facilitated by ascribing meaning to novel stimuli. Current Biology, 18, r410-412.
McKinstry, C., Dale, R., & Spivey, M. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24.
Spivey, M. J. (2007). The continuity of mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Farmer, T., Anderson, S., & Spivey, M. (2007). Gradiency and visual context in syntactic garden-paths. Journal of Memory and Language. 57, 570-595.
Dale, R., Kehoe, C., & Spivey, M. (2007). Graded motor responses in the time course of categorizing atypical exemplars. Memory and Cognition, 35, 15-28.
Spivey, M. & Dale, R. (2006). Continuous temporal dynamics in cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 207-211.
Reali, F., Spivey, M., Tyler, M., & Terranova, J. (2006). Inefficient conjunction search made efficient by concurrent spoken delivery of target identity. Perception and Psychophysics. 68, 959-974.
Spivey, M., Grosjean, M. & Knoblich, G. (2005). Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(29), 10393-10398.
Richardson, D., Spivey, M., Barsalou, L., & McRae, K. (2003). Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs. Cognitive Science, 27, 767-780.
Spivey, M., Tyler, M., Eberhard, K., & Tanenhaus, M. (2001). Linguistically mediated visual search. Psychological Science, 12, 282-286.
Spivey, M. & Geng, J. (2001). Oculomotor mechanisms activated by imagery and memory: Eye movements to absent objects. Psychological Research, 65, 235-241.
Spivey, M. & Tanenhaus, M. (1998). Syntactic ambiguity resolution in discourse: Modeling the effects of referential context and lexical frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1521-1543.
Tanenhaus, M., Spivey-Knowlton, M., Eberhard, K., & Sedivy, J. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268,1632-1634.
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Office Phone: (209) 228-7742
Email: spivey@ucmerced.edu
Research Interests:
My lab's research interests include the interaction between language and vision, sentence processing, word recognition, visual attention, visual memory, eye movements, and computational modeling. Using an eyetracker that a subject wears on his/her head, and simultaneously recording the streaming x,y coordinates of their computer-mouse movements, my lab gets an online measure of some of the probabilistic representations (or "tentative interpretations") that get computed in real-time as the subject attempts to integrate various sources of visual and/or linguistic information. An example finding from this work is that spoken word recognition and syntactic parsing are immediately influenced by relevant visual context -- thus compromising strict modular theories of language processing. This, and related, work is described in my book, The Continuity of Mind (2007, Oxford University Press).
Selected Publications:
Spivey, M. J., Anderson, S. E., Dale, R. (2009). The phase transition in human cognition. New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 5, 197-220.
Spivey M. J. & Anderson, S. E. (2008). On a compatibility between emergentism and reductionism. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 20, 239-245.
Lupyan, G. & Spivey, M. (2008). Perceptual processing is facilitated by ascribing meaning to novel stimuli. Current Biology, 18, r410-412.
McKinstry, C., Dale, R., & Spivey, M. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24.
Spivey, M. J. (2007). The continuity of mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Farmer, T., Anderson, S., & Spivey, M. (2007). Gradiency and visual context in syntactic garden-paths. Journal of Memory and Language. 57, 570-595.
Dale, R., Kehoe, C., & Spivey, M. (2007). Graded motor responses in the time course of categorizing atypical exemplars. Memory and Cognition, 35, 15-28.
Spivey, M. & Dale, R. (2006). Continuous temporal dynamics in cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 207-211.
Reali, F., Spivey, M., Tyler, M., & Terranova, J. (2006). Inefficient conjunction search made efficient by concurrent spoken delivery of target identity. Perception and Psychophysics. 68, 959-974.
Spivey, M., Grosjean, M. & Knoblich, G. (2005). Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(29), 10393-10398.
Richardson, D., Spivey, M., Barsalou, L., & McRae, K. (2003). Spatial representations activated during real-time comprehension of verbs. Cognitive Science, 27, 767-780.
Spivey, M., Tyler, M., Eberhard, K., & Tanenhaus, M. (2001). Linguistically mediated visual search. Psychological Science, 12, 282-286.
Spivey, M. & Geng, J. (2001). Oculomotor mechanisms activated by imagery and memory: Eye movements to absent objects. Psychological Research, 65, 235-241.
Spivey, M. & Tanenhaus, M. (1998). Syntactic ambiguity resolution in discourse: Modeling the effects of referential context and lexical frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1521-1543.
Tanenhaus, M., Spivey-Knowlton, M., Eberhard, K., & Sedivy, J. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268,1632-1634.