What do the eyes really see? An eye-tracking account of language processing

This experimental study aims to investigate the translation process from English to Czech in a multimodal scenario by using an eye tracker. We investigate specific aspects of translating ambiguous and unambiguous sentences, and simultaneously, we focus on the possible impact of visual information on the translation process. Thus, we show how mechanisms of visual search, as well as the presence and attention mechanisms involved in such translation processes, can be explored based on various eye-movement data, i.e., cognitive mechanisms involved in reading original sentences and producing the corresponding translation are studied using a plethora of eye-tracking-specific metrics. Among other things, the paper demonstrates how the Stroop effect is visible in the experimental setup.