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.
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- I'll Walk This Way: Eyes Reveal the Direction of Locomotion and Make Passersby Look and Go the Other Way (2009)
- Psychological Science
- Lexical Predictability Exerts Robust Effects on Fixation Duration, but not on Initial Landing Position During Reading (2009)
- Experimental Psychology
- Parafoveal processing within and between words (2009)
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Dynamic binding of identity and location information: A serial model of multiple identity tracking (2008)
- Cognitive Psychology
- Emotional scenes in peripheral vision: Selective orienting and gist processing, but not content identification (2008)
- Emotion
- Perspective-driven text comprehension (2008)
- Applied Cognitive Psychology
- Processing modifier-head agreement in reading: Evidence for a delayed effect of agreement (2008)
- Memory and Cognition
- Semantic processing of previews within compound words (2008)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Emotional and neutral scenes in competition: Orienting, efficiency, and identification (2007)
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Perspective effects in repeated reading: An eye movement study (2007)
- Memory and Cognition
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