Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
Temporal ontology and temporal reference
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
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Studies in event perception have shown that people sort ongoing experiences into neat and tidy event packages instead of unedited recordings of the world. For events unfolding along multiple tracks, there is evidence that humans impose boundaries onto them and perceive them to be one psychological entity (i.e., temporal chunking). Language users have been shown to use the differences in the beginning states of activities to describe the event sequence of simultaneous events. The current study investigated whether language users have a perceptual bias toward the beginning states while describing event sequences. Participants viewed films of simultaneous events, and described the temporal relationship of events. Throughout the experiments, their eye movements were recorded. The results did not show a compelling bias in visual attention toward the beginning boundaries. We present the findings of our eye tracking study and discuss the results in the context of the interplay between nonlinguistic and linguistic representations of events.