Tuomo
Häikiö
University Lecturer, Psychology
Areas of expertise
Reading
reading development
eye movements
Biography
I graduated from the Department of Psychology at University of Turku in 2003. In my master's thesis I looked into the processing of emotional content in the parafoveal vision in reading. In my PhD studies I studied reading development using eye movement tracking as a tool. I completed my PhD in 2011. Since then, I've continued examining reading and writing of early readers using eye tracking. I've gained media coverage with my findings that hyphenation at syllable level slows down readers already very early in their education.
Teaching
I teach statistical methodology in psychology.
Research
I'm mostly interested in the development of reading. I use eye movement registration as my main method.
Publications
Reciprocal relationships between a child’s engagement with faces and mother–child interaction at 8, 30, and 60 months. (2024)
Developmental Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy (2024)
Infant Behavior and Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
LASTU: A psycholinguistic search tool for Finnish lexical stimuli (2024)
Behavior Research Methods
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
Developmental Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
Infant Behavior and Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Eye movements unveil sensitivity of naïve listeners to iconicity of Russian onomatopoeic words (2023)
Полярный Вестник / Poljarnyj Vestnik
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Children's processing of written irony: An eye-tracking study (2023)
Cognition
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others' emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes (2022)
Cognition and Emotion
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Effect of Syllable-level Hyphenation on Novel Word Reading in Early Finnish Readers: Evidence from Eye Movements (2022)
Scientific Studies of Reading
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Stability of Early Developing Attentional Bias for Faces and Fear From 8 to 30 and 60 Months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
Developmental Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))