eggs in this scene were in liquid form. During the phrase "in the bowl" the participants became confused as to which egg to use. In the next scene there was an "incompatible competitor" because one egg was solid and one egg was liquid. In this case it was much easier for the subject to choose which one was in a state in which it could be "poured". The results suggest that referents were assessed in terms of how compatible they were with the instructions. This supports the hypothesis that non-linguistic domain restrictions can influence syntactic ambiguity resolution. The participants applied situation specific, contextual properties to the way in which they followed these instructions. The results show that language is processed incrementally, as an utterance unfolds, and that visual information and context play a role in the processing. Books Tanenhaus has collaborated with others to edit two books. His first book “Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Perspective from Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology, and Artificial Intelligence” was published in 1988. This book contains eighteen original papers which look at the concept of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. His most recent work “Approaches to Studying World- Situated Language Use: Bridging the Language and Product and Language as Action Traditions” was published in 2004. This book was published to show the importance of looking at both social and cognitive aspects when studying language processing. The book is made up of papers and reports of relevant experimental findings. References Just, M. & Carpenter, P. (1980). A theory of reading: from eye fixation to comprehension. Psychology Review, 87, 329–354. Chambers, et al. (2004). Actions and Affordances in Syntactics Ambiguity Resolutions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30(3), 687–696. Hauser, Scott (2004). The Eyes Have It. Rochester Review. Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard, & Sedivy (1995). Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension. Science, 268, 1632–1634. Tanenhaus, Michael - Faculty Website. University of Rochester. 21st-century American psychologists Linguists from the United States Psycholinguists University of Rochester faculty University of Iowa alumni Columbia University alumni Wayne State University faculty Living people Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society Year of birth missing (living people)