Jukka Hyönä
PhD
Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology hyona@utu.fi : 224 |
cognitive psychology, psychology of language, visual attention
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.
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.
I teach courses on cognitive psychology and psychology of language. I also supervise BA, MA and PhD theses.
- Context and working memory capacity affect the processing of written irony in chinese: an eye-tracking study (2026)
- Psychological Research
- Modeling human social vision with cinematic stimuli: An integrative approach (2026)
- Journal of Vision
- Non-Selective Word Activation Among Chinese–Japanese Bilinguals: Evidence From Lexical Decision and Sentence Reading (2026)
- International Journal of Bilingualism
- Processing mechanisms of three-character compound words in Chinese sentence reading: evidence from lexical decisions and eye movements (2026)
- Language, cognition and neuroscience
- Processing transitivity in reading Finnish (2026) The Diversity and the Unity of Linguistics : Studies in Honour of Esa Itkonen Vainio, Seppo; Pajunen, Anneli; Hyönä, Jukka; Bertram, Raymond
- Saccade target selection in L2 reading: Evidence from Chinese–English bilinguals. (2026)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Scan path similarity as a function of performance accuracy in multiple object tracking (2026)
- Vision Research
- The costs of adding versus omitting diacritics in visual word recognition: Evidence from German and Finnish. (2026)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Endogenous opioid system modulates proximal and distal threat signals in the human brain (2025)
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Gender and home language effects on vocabulary skills among school children aged 9–15 in Finland (2025)
- Scientific Reports



