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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: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in dyslexic reading
Julie Kirkby, Rhianna Barrington, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2022, Dyslexia, 28(3), 359-374
DOI: 10.1002/dys.1721
Type: article
The impact of hyperlinks, skim reading and perceived importance when reading on the web
Lewis Jayes, Gemma Fitzsimmons, Mark Weal, J.K. Kaakinen & Denis Drieghe, 2022, PLoS ONE, 17(2), 1
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263669
Type: article
Does diacritics‐based lexical disambiguation modulate word frequency, length, and predictability effects? An eye‐movements investigation of processing Arabic diacritics
Ehab Hermena, Sana Bouamama, Simon P Liversedge & Denis Drieghe, 2021, PLoS ONE, 16(11), 1
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259987
Type: article
Into a new decade
Marc Brysbaert, Zsuzsa Bakk, Erin Buchanan, Denis Drieghe, Andreas Frey, Eunsook Kim, Victor Kuperman, Christopher Madan, Marco Marelli, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Dubravka Svetina Valdivia & Melvin Yap, 2021, Behavior Research Methods, 53(1), 1-3
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01497-y
Type: letterEditorial
The Impact of skim reading and navigation when reading hyperlinks on the web
Gemma Fitzsimmons, Lewis Jayes, Mark Weal & Denis Drieghe, 2020, PLoS ONE, 15(9), 1-23
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239134
Type: article