Eye Movements during Reading

Project overview

In this research line we use eye movement during reading to examine language processing.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Denis Drieghe

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Research interests

My research can be situated in the field of eye movements during reading.
One of my main research lines has been related to parafoveal processing: How accurate is parafoveal processing, and how does it influence the decision whether to skip the next word or not; How does it relate to foveal processing (i.e. simultaneous or only after foveal processing has been concluded). Additionally, my research has examined reading in multiple languages (English, Dutch, Finnish, Chinese, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese), and has directly compared reading in different languages both between native speakers and within bilinguals. Recent projects involved looking at task effects during reading (e.g. reading for comprehension versus skimming) and individual differences in reading (e.g. spelling skills and reading ability).
Besides these topics, I'm also interested in a wide range of phenomena, all dealing with either eye movements in reading or the processing of words in general.

Connect with Denis

Email: D.Drieghe@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Perception and Cognition (CPC)

We investigate cognitive psychology and human perception processes through vision, touch and sound. Our research explores high-level functions, including learning, memory, metacognition and reading.

Research outputs

Individual differences in skilled reading and the word frequency effect

Charlotte E. Lee, Hayward Godwin, Hazel I. Blythe & Denis Drieghe, 2024, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Type: article

New data on text reading in English as a second language: the wave 2 expansion of the multilingual eye movements corpus (MECO)

Victor Kuperman, Sascha Schroeder, Cengiz Acartürk, Niket Agrawal, Lena Bollinger, Jan Brasser, César Campos-Rojas, Denis Drieghe, Dušica Filipović Ðurðević, Sofya Goldina, Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana, Lena A. Jäger, Ómar I. Jóhannesson, Anurag Khare, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne B.S. Knudsen, Árni Kristjánsson, Charlotte E. Lee, Jun Ren Lee, Marina P.T. Leite, Simona Mancini, Nataša Mihajlović, Ksenija Mišić, Miroslava Orekhova, Olga Parshina, Milica Popović Stijačić, Athanassios Protopapas, David R. Reich, Anurag Rimzhim, Rui Rothe-Neves, Thais M.M. Sá, Andrea Santana Covarrubias, Irina Sekerina, Heiða M. Sigurðdardóttir, Anna Smirnova, Priyanka Srivastava, Ivana Ugrinic, Kerem Alp Usal, Karolina Vakulya, Ark Verma, Denise H. Wu, Jin Xue, Sunčica Zdravković, Junjing Zhuo, Laoura Ziaka & Noam Siegelman, 2024, Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Type: article

Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in developmental dyslexic reading

Julie A. Kirkby, Rhiannon S. Barrington, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2024, Dyslexia

Type: article

The jingle fallacy in comprehension tests for reading

Charlotte E. Lee, Hayward J. Godwin & Denis Drieghe, 2024, PLoS ONE, 19(7 July), e0306466

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306466

Type: article

Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2

Diana Esteve, Manuel Perea, Bernhard Angele, Victor Kuperman & Denis Drieghe, 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02529-w

Type: article