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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

Research outputs

How strongly do word reading times and lexical decision times correlate? Combining data from eye movement corpora and megastudies
Victor Kuperman, Denis Drieghe, Emmanuel Keuleers & Marc Brysbaert, 2013, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(3), 563-580
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.658820
Type: article
Investigating eye movement acquisition and analysis technologies as a causal factor in differential prevalence of crossed and uncrossed fixation disparity during reading and dot scanning
Julie A. Kirkby, Hazel I. Blythe, Denis Drieghe, Valerie Benson & Simon P. Liversedge, 2013, Behavior Research Methods, 45, 664-678
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0301-2
Type: article
Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading
L. Cui, Denis Drieghe, G. Yan, X. Bai, H. Chi & Simon P. Liversedge, 2013, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(2), 403-416
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.720265
Type: article
Using E-Z reader to examine word skipping during reading
E.D. Reichle & Denis Drieghe, 2013, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 39(4), 1311-1320
DOI: 10.1037/a0030910
Type: article
Beyond isolated word recognition
Simon P. Liversedge, Hazel I. Blythe & Denis Drieghe, 2012, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(5), 31-32
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000210
Type: article