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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

The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading
Chuanli Zang, Yongsheng Wang, Xuejun Bai, Guoli Yan, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2016, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(3), 548-560
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1061030
Type: article
Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel
Uschi Cop, Denis Drieghe & Wouter Duyck, 2015, PLoS ONE, 10(8), 1-38
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134008
Type: article
How is information integrated across fixations in reading?
Michael Cutter, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2015
Type: bookChapter
Frequency effects in monolingual and bilingual natural reading
Uschi Cop, Emmanuel Keuleers, Denis Drieghe & Wouter Duyck, 2015, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(5), 1216-1234
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0819-2
Type: article
Processing of Arabic diacritical marks: phonological–syntactic disambiguation of homographic verbs and visual crowding effects
Ehab W. Hermena, Denis Drieghe, Sam Hellmuth & Simon.P. Liversedge, 2015, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 41(2), 494-507
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000032
Type: article