On the afternoon of October 30th, Javier Valenzuela, a tenured professor at the University of Murcia, was invited to participate in the second language acquisition, cognition and brain science academic forum held by the Center for the Cognitive Science of Language. An academic lecture entitled "Recent empirical advances in multimodal and multilingual language processing in subtitles and captions" was brought to all participants. This lecture is the eighth lecture of the forum. It was initiated by Professor Wang Jianqin, Director of Center for the Cognitive Science of Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, and hosted by Dr. Wei Yanjun. The lectures broadcasted via zoom and bilibili, which attracted hundreds of domestic and foreign audiences.
Professor Javier Valenzuela is an Eye-tracking expert , he gave a systematic and detailed introduction to the eye-tracking experiment research around four main issues. First, Professor Javier Valenzuela introduced important eye movement indicators and theories, including saccade, fixation and regression. Secondly, Professor Javier Valenzuela introduced the main research paradigm of eye movement experiments-the visual world paradigm, and summarized the application of this paradigm in different fields. Then, Professor Javier Valenzuela shared his latest research results and introduced how to use eye movement experiments to compare people's cognitive efforts in the translation process. Finally, Professor Javier Valenzuela summarized the technical aspects of eye movement experiments.
The content of Professor Javier Valenzuela’s lecture was comprehensive, lively and interesting, which stimulated lively discussions among participated teachers and students, broadened everyone’s academic horizons, and provided many new research ideas for second language cognitive processing research. The application of eye movement technology in psychological and linguistic cognitive research has gained a deeper understanding and understanding, and has benefited a lot. This lecture raised a good response and positive expected results, and provided us with many valuable enlightenments and new perspectives for our future eye movement experiments.
