Jukka
Hyönä
Docent, Psychology
PhD
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Areas of expertise
cognitive psychology
psychology of language
visual attention
Biography
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.
Teaching
I teach courses on cognitive psychology and psychology of language. I also supervise BA, MA and PhD theses.
Research
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.
Publications
Development of the letter identity span in reading: Evidence from the eye movement moving window paradigm (2009)
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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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
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Emotional Scene Content Drives the Saccade Generation System Reflexively (2009)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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Semantic processing of previews within compound words (2008)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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Processing modifier-head agreement in reading: Evidence for a delayed effect of agreement (2008)
Memory and Cognition
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Dynamic binding of identity and location information: A serial model of multiple identity tracking (2008)
Cognitive Psychology
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Perspective-driven text comprehension (2008)
Applied Cognitive Psychology
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Emotional scenes in peripheral vision: Selective orienting and gist processing, but not content identification (2008)
Emotion
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Perspective effects in repeated reading: An eye movement study (2007)
Memory and Cognition
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The role of interword spacing in reading Japanese: An eye movement study (2007)
Vision Research
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