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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

Reading text increases binocular disparity in dyslexic children
Julie Kirkby, Hazel I. Blythe, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2011, PLoS ONE, 6(11), 1-7
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027105.t004
Type: article
The influence of number of syllables on word skipping during reading
Gemma Fitzsimmons & Denis Drieghe, 2011, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(4), 736-741
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0105-x
Type: article
Eye movements and word skipping during reading: effects of word length and predictability
Keith Rayner, Timothy J. Slattery, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2011, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(2), 514-528
DOI: 10.1037/a0020990
Type: article
The influence of semantic constraints on bilingual word recognition during sentence reading
Eva Van Assche, Denis Drieghe, Wouter Duyck, Marijke Welvaert & Robert J Hartsuiker, 2011, Journal of Memory and Language, 64(1), 88-107
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.08.006
Type: article
Parafoveal-on-foveal effects on eye movements during reading
Denis Drieghe, 2011
Type: bookChapter