Why Does Language Interfere with Vision-Based Tasks?

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How Speech Modifies Visual Attention

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Concurrent speech planning does not eliminate repetition priming from spoken words: Evidence from linguistic dual-tasking.

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Effects of verbal tasks on driving simulator performance

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Dyadic neuroscience is the next scientific frontier of sociocognitive development: a proof-of-concept for a collaborative conversation task in clinical and underrepresented populations

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Interaction between conversation with a remote interlocutor and a visuomotor task

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Don’t Talk and Drive?

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Discourse Construction Mechanisms: An Eye-Tracking Study on L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish

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Interference between conversation and a concurrent visuomotor task.

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Friend or confederate: Conversation and a concurrent visuomotor task

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Planning spontaneous speech and concurrent visual monitoring of a televised face: Is there interference?

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Listeners use speaker identity to access representations of spatial perspective during online language comprehension

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