Abstract Two visual world eye-tracking experiments investigated anticipatory looks to implicit causes and implicit consequences in two clause sentences with mental state verbs (Stimulus-Experiencer and Experiencer-Stimulus) in the first main clause, and an explicit cause or consequence in the second. The first experiment showed that, just as when all continuations are causes, people look early at the implicit cause, when all continuations are consequences they look early at the implicit consequence, for the same verbs. When causes and consequences are intermixed, people direct their looks at the cause or consequence on a trial-by-trial basis depending on the connective (“because” or “and so”). Numerically, causes were favored overall, even when all the endings were consequences, but the effect was only significant at the end of the sentences in Experiment 2. The results are discussed in terms of rapid deployment of causal and consequential information implicit in mental state verbs, and in relation to conflicting accounts of why causes or consequences might generally be favored.

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预测原因和后果

摘要 两个视觉世界眼动追踪实验调查了在第一个主句中带有心理状态动词（Stimulus-Experiencer 和 Experienceer-Stimulus）的两个从句句子中的隐含原因和隐含后果的预期外观，以及在第二个主句中的显性原因或结果。第一个实验表明，就像当所有的延续都是原因时，人们会过早地看到内隐原因，当所有的延续都是结果时，他们会更早地看到内隐的结果，对于相同的动词。当原因和结果混合在一起时，人们会根据连接词（“因为”或“等等”）在逐个试验的基础上直接观察原因或结果。从数字上看，原因总体上是有利的，即使所有的结局都是结果，