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.
- How prior knowledge, WMC, and relevance of information affect eye fixations in expository text (2003)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Incorporating semantics and individual differences in models of working memory (2003)
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- The length of a complex word modifies the role of morphological structure: Evidence from eye movements when reading short and long Finnish compounds (2003)
- Journal of Memory and Language
- A morphological effect obtains for isolated words but not for words in sentence context (2002)
- European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Individual differences in reading to summarize expository text: Evidence from eye fixation patterns (2002)
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Perspective effects on online text processing (2002)
- Discourse Processes
- Reading morphologically complex clause structures in Finnish (2001)
- European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Affixal Homonymy triggers full-form storage, even with inflected words, even in a morphologically rich language (2000)
- Cognition
- Jukka Hyona Professor of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland (2000)
- European Psychologist
- Reading strategies as revealed by readers' eye-movement patterns (2000)
- International Journal of Psychology
- The role of context in morphological processing: Evidence from Finnish (2000)
- Language and Cognitive Processes
- The role of morphological constituents in reading Finnish compound words (2000)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- The role of visual constraints on lexical processing (2000)
- International Journal of Psychology
- Affixal homonymy triggers full-form storage, even with inflected words, even in a morphologically rich language (1999)
- Studies in languages
- Lexical access routes to nouns in a morphologically rich language (1999)
- Journal of Memory and Language
- Utilization of illustrations during learning of science textbook passages among low- and high-ability children (1999)
- Contemporary Educational Psychology
- Reading and language processing. (1998)
- European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Reading Finnish compound words: Eye fixations are affected by component morphemes (1998)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Effects of case marking and word order on sentence parsing in Finnish: An eye fixation analysis (1997)
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Series a Human Experimental Psychology
- Eye fixations, speech rate and bilingual digit span: Numeral reading indexes fluency not word length (1997)
- Acta Psychologica