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
- Maternal Depressive Symptoms During the Pre‐ and Postnatal Periods and Infant Attention to Emotional Faces (2020)
- Child Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tracking the Identity of Moving Words: Stimulus Complexity and Familiarity Affects Tracking Accuracy (2020)
- Applied Cognitive Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of task instructions and topic signaling on text processing among adult readers with different reading styles: An eye-tracking study (2019)
- Learning and Instruction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eye behavior during multiple object tracking and multiple identity tracking (2019)
- Vision
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eye movements during reading (2019) Eye Movement Research - An Introduction to its Scientific Foundations and Applications Jukka Hyönä, Johanna K. Kaakinen
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Maternal Pre- and Postnatal Anxiety Symptoms and Infant Attention Disengagement from Emotional Faces (2019)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Model of Multiple Identity Tracking (MOMIT) 2.0: Resolving the serial vs parallel controversy in tracking (2019)
- Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Angry faces are tracked more easily than neutral faces during multiple identity tracking (2018)
- Cognition and Emotion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Close coupling between eye movements and serial attentional refreshing during multiple-identity tracking (2018)
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of Grammatical Structure of Compound Words on Word Recognition in Chinese (2018)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



