Now you see it, now you don't: mediating the mapping between language and the visual world

The goal of much psycholinguistic research is to understand the processes by which linguistic input is mapped onto a hearer's mental representation of his or her world. Within the context of a sentence such as "The mouse chased the cat into the basket," we can ask questions such as "At what stage is the cat interpreted as the thing being chased?" "At what stage do we determine which cat?" and, more generally, "How, and when, do we map the components of a sentence onto components of the world?" H