
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
Effects of Grammatical Structure of Compound Words on Word Recognition in Chinese (2018)
Frontiers in Psychology
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Morphological structure influences the initial landing position in words during reading Finnish (2018)
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Close coupling between eye movements and serial attentional refreshing during multiple-identity tracking (2018)
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
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Timed written picture naming in 14 European languages (2018)
Behavior Research Methods
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Angry faces are tracked more easily than neutral faces during multiple identity tracking (2018)
Cognition and Emotion
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The Interplay of Implicit Causality, Structural Heuristics, and Anaphor Type in Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution (2017)
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
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Cortical Circuit for Binding Object Identity and Location During Multiple-Object Tracking (2017)
Cerebral Cortex
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An eye-movement analysis of the refutation effect in reading science text (2017)
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
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Reading monomorphemic and compound words in Chinese (2017)
Mental Lexicon
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Universality in eye movements and reading: A trilingual investigation (2016)
Cognition
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