Processing parallels between language and vision? Focus on economy of our brain

When we see a ball move forward, stop, and that very moment see another ball start to move, we automatically interpret this event as one ball launching the other. When we hear or read “George came in. Al left” we interpret that Al is leaving because of George’s arrival. Humans tend to interpret such sequences of events causally, even though linguistic clues are absent. We will investigate how the human brain interprets causality and focus on parallels between linguistic and visual processing. Does the brain work so economical that it uses a ‘sense-independent representation’?