Your Text Describes a Study in Which Eye-Movement Data Revealed

question 29

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study in which eye-movement data revealed that participants looked at a cake rather than at an inedible object immediately on hearing the word eat and before the word cake was heard. The results of this study __________.

• A) supported the idea that the interpretation of a sentence is developed online as successive words occur
• B) suggested that the interpretation of a sentence is formulated once the sentence is over
• C) suggested that language has little influence on visual attention
• D) indicated that the surroundings strongly influence the interpretation of language