Relational recognition is the process by which relational
representations get recognized (i.e., representations that specify an
actor and a patient, and are role sensitive). This process is currently
poorly understood, but is an important aspect of relational
cognition (Livins & Doumas, 2014). This paper presents two
experiments that investigate the degree to which visuospatial
factors influence it. The first is an exploratory eye-tracking study
that shows that first fixations are correlated with what object gets
bound to the actor role, while the second uses priming to show that
such fixations can alter which relation is recognized.
