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
Eye fixations, speech rate and bilingual digit span: Numeral reading indexes fluency not word length (1997)
Acta Psychologica
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TEXT, TOPOS, AND MENTAL MODELS (1995)
Discourse Processes
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EYE FIXATION PATTERNS AMONG DYSLEXIC AND NORMAL READERS - EFFECTS OF WORD-LENGTH AND WORD-FREQUENCY (1995)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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PUPIL-DILATION AS A MEASURE OF PROCESSING LOAD IN SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION AND OTHER LANGUAGE TASKS (1995)
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Series a Human Experimental Psychology
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PRIMERS AS SOCIALIZING AGENTS IN AMERICAN AND FINNISH SCHOOLS (1995)
Comparative Education Review
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AN EYE-MOVEMENT ANALYSIS OF TOPIC-SHIFT EFFECT DURING REPEATED READING (1995)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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Effects of a word's morphological complexity on readers' eye fixation patterns (1995)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))DO IRREGULAR LETTER COMBINATIONS ATTRACT READERS ATTENTION - EVIDENCE FROM FIXATION LOCATIONS IN WORDS (1995)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF POLYMORPHEMIC NOUNS IN A HIGHLY INFLECTING LANGUAGE (1995)
Cognitive Neuropsychology
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DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION AND TEXT-PROCESSING - OAKHILL,J, GARNHAM,J (1994)
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
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