= Michael K. Tanenhaus
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<Michael K. Tanenhaus> is a researcher in <psycholinguistics> associated with the University of Rochester. Its directory identifies his interests in <language> and <reading comprehension> and his emeritus appointment in brain and cognitive sciences and <linguistics>.<Michael Tanenhaus in the University of Rochester directory>[Tanenhaus, Michael K., appointment and research interests]{ref}
With <Michael Spivey>, <Kathleen M. Eberhard> and <Julie Sedivy>, he developed experiments connecting <eye tracking> to interpretation of spoken instructions. Their 1995 study used real objects and a head-mounted tracker; varying the visible referents altered how a temporarily ambiguous instruction was interpreted.<Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension by Michael K. Tanenhaus and others>[apparatus and one/two-referent conditions, pp.1632–1634]{ref} This <visual world paradigm> makes the time course of <sentence comprehension> experimentally accessible. A fixation is evidence about allocation of attention during a controlled task; it must be interpreted through the alternatives available to the participant.
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