= Julie C. Sedivy
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= Julie Sedivy
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<Julie C. Sedivy> is a <linguist> and writer who studies how people understand and use <language>. Her account of her scientific work identifies a doctorate at the University of Rochester, research using <eye tracking> to study spoken comprehension, and subsequent teaching at Brown University. Her textbook writing presents <psycholinguistics> through connections between experimental findings and ordinary language use.<Bio by Julie Sedivy>[scientific training, eye-movement research and textbook description]{ref}
She coauthored the 1995 study linking visual context to online interpretation of spoken instructions.<Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension by Michael K. Tanenhaus and others>[byline, pp.1632–1634]{ref} The methodological connection is useful: fixations timed against an unfolding utterance can distinguish interpretations that lead to the same eventual response. Such a measurement needs carefully chosen alternatives and contexts before it supports a claim about <sentence comprehension>.
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