Jukka Hyönä
PhD
Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology hyona@utu.fi Office: 224 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5950-3361 |
Areas of expertise
cognitive psychology, psychology of language, visual attention
cognitive psychology, psychology of language, visual attention
Biography
I received my PhD degree in psychology in 1993 from the University of Turku (Finland), where I now serve as a professor of psychology and the Head of the Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology.
Research
My main research focus is on the use of the eye-tracking method to study various visually based cognitive tasks, including, reading and text comprehension, multiple object tracking, attentional capture and recognition of peripherally presented stimuli. The emphasis is on capturing how processing of visual stimuli evolves over time. To date, my most significant scientific contributions have been made to the study of how the eyes (and visual attention) are guided through a written text. In that domain, my studies tap into different levels of written language comprehension – from word recognition via sentence parsing to comprehension of long expository texts. I have also applied the method to study attentional processes and eye guidance during reading. My research has been published in journals such as Journal of Memory and Language, Psychological Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology. I have published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
My main research focus is on the use of the eye-tracking method to study various visually based cognitive tasks, including, reading and text comprehension, multiple object tracking, attentional capture and recognition of peripherally presented stimuli. The emphasis is on capturing how processing of visual stimuli evolves over time. To date, my most significant scientific contributions have been made to the study of how the eyes (and visual attention) are guided through a written text. In that domain, my studies tap into different levels of written language comprehension – from word recognition via sentence parsing to comprehension of long expository texts. I have also applied the method to study attentional processes and eye guidance during reading. My research has been published in journals such as Journal of Memory and Language, Psychological Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology. I have published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Teaching
I teach courses on cognitive psychology and psychology of language. I also supervise BA, MA and PhD theses.
Publications
- Gaze Behavior and Cognitive Performance on Tasks of Multiple Object Tracking and Multiple Identity Tracking by Handball Players and Non-Athletes (2024)
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gaze Behavior and Cognitive Performance on Tasks of Multiple Object Tracking and Multiple Identity Tracking by Handball Players and Non-Athletes (2024)
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy (2024)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Relating foveal and parafoveal processing efficiency with word-level parameters in text reading (2024)
- Journal of Memory and Language
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
- Developmental Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Beta- and gamma-band cortico-cortical interactions support naturalistic reading of continuous text (2023)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Effect of peri-hand space among users of a familiar tool: more attention enhancement in space near palm than dorsal side of hand (2023)
- Current Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Exploring the comparative adequacy of a unimanual and a bimanual stimulus-response setup for use with three-alternative choice response time tasks (2023)
- PLoS ONE
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Norms on the Gender Perception of Role Nouns: Gender Ratio Data for Chinese, Finnish, and Russian (2023)
- Journal of Open Psychology Data
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Reading compound words in Finnish and Chinese: An eye-tracking study (2023)
- Journal of Memory and Language
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - “The Authors” Make Me Think Equally of Women and Men: Exploring Mixed-Gender Representations in a Visual Categorisation Task (2023) Kim Jonathan D., Öttl Anton, Gygax Pascal, Behne Dawn M., Hyönä Jukka, Gabriel Ute
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The Importance of Eye Movement Research for Gaining Insight into Morphological Processing (2023) Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain Bertram Raymond, Hyönä Jukka
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Attention control in a demanding dynamic time-sharing environment: An eye-tracking study (2022)
- Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Does vowel harmony affect visual word recognition? Evidence from Finnish. (2022)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Eye Movements of Children and Adults Reading in Three Different Orthographies (2022)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Paraneeko työteho tai työskentelykokemus vastamelukuulokkeilla? (2022) Sisäilmastoseminaari 2022 Radun Jenni, Tervahartiala Iida-Kaisa, Keränen Jukka, Hyönä Jukka, Hongisto Valtteri
(Professional conference proceedings (D3)) - Universal and specific reading mechanisms across different writing systems (2022)
- Nature Reviews Psychology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Behavioral regulatory problems are associated with a lower attentional bias to fearful faces during infancy (2021)
- Child Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Compound word frequency modifies the effect of character frequency in reading Chinese (2021)
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))