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.
- Effects of reading goal and reading task on ete fixation patternsFacilitatory and inhibitatory effects of grammatical agreement: Evidence from readers' eye fixation patterns (2011)
- Studies of Psychology and Behavior
- (2011)
- Acta Linguistica Hungarica
- Food Catches the Eye but Not for Everyone: A BMI-Contingent Attentional Bias in Rapid Detection of Nutriments (2011)
- PLoS ONE
- Food Catches the Eye but Not for Everyone: A BMI-Contingent Attentional Bias in Rapid Detection of Nutriments (2011)
- PLoS ONE
- Foveal and parafoveal processing during readingInfluence of a psychological perspective on scene viewing and memory for scenes (2011) The Oxford handbook of eye movements Hyönä Jukka
- 2011
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Influence of text cohesion on the persuasive power of expository text (2011)
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Morphology in language comprehension, production and acquisition: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes (2011)
- Language and Cognitive Processes
- Morphology in language comprehension, production and acquisitionOnline processing of and memory for perspective relevant and irrelevant text information2011
- Language and Cognitive Processes
- (2011) Text relevance and learning from text Kaakinen Johanna K, Hyönä Jukka



