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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- Morphological structure influences the initial landing position in words during reading Finnish (2018)
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Spoken second language words activate native language orthographic information in late second language learners (2018)
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Timed written picture naming in 14 European languages (2018)
- Behavior Research Methods
- An eye-movement analysis of the refutation effect in reading science text (2017)
- Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
- Cortical Circuit for Binding Object Identity and Location During Multiple-Object Tracking (2017)
- Cerebral Cortex
- Reading monomorphemic and compound words in Chinese (2017)
- Mental Lexicon
- The Interplay of Implicit Causality, Structural Heuristics, and Anaphor Type in Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution (2017)
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Background Speech Effects on Sentence Processing during Reading: An Eye Movement Study (2016)
- PLoS ONE
- How facial attractiveness affects sustained attention (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Orthographic Activation in L2 Spoke n Word Recognition Depends on Proficiency : Evidence from Eye-Tracking (2016)
- Frontiers in Psychology
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