Henri Olkoniemi
PhD
hoolko@utu.fi Assistentinkatu 7 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6915-089X |
Research
I’m interested in how people can understand each other although their
I’m interested in how people can understand each other although their
language use is not precise (e.g., when they use figurative language);
and what the reasons are why they sometimes fail in the comprehension
process. Moreover, I have a wider interest towards language
comprehension in general and towards visual cognition. I primarily
examine these questions using eye tracking, and combining eye tracking
with other laboratory measures.
Publications
- Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension (2026)
- Journal of Child Language
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Learning Irony in School: Effects of Metapragmatic Training (2025)
- Journal of Child Language
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research (2024)
- Discourse Processes
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power (2024)
- Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Viral simulations in dreams: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams (2024)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in Frequency and Form of Domestic Violence in Calls to Violence Helpline During COVID-19 in Finland (2023)
- Psychology of violence
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Children's processing of written irony: An eye-tracking study (2023)
- Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comprehending irony in text: evidence from scanpaths (2023)
- Discourse Processes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dangerous waters: The impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on survivor dream content. (2023)
- Dreaming
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neurologically Healthy Humans’ Ability to Make Saccades Toward Unseen Targets (2023)
- Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



