southampton

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

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

Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic

Ehab Hermena, Simon P Liversedge, Sana Bouamama & Denis Drieghe, 2019, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 45(5), 934-954

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000626

Type: article

The influence of number of syllables on word skipping during reading revisited

Denis Drieghe, Aaron Veldre, Gemma Fitzsimmons, Jane Ashby & Sally Andrews, 2019, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 616-621

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-019-01590-0

Type: article

Eye-movement evidence for the mental representation of strokes in Chinese characters

Lili Yu, Jianping Xiong, Qiaoming Zhang, Denis Drieghe & Erik D. Reichle, 2019, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 45(3), 544-551

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000598

Type: article

The impact of hyperlinks on reading text

Gemma Fitzsimmons, Mark Weal & Denis Drieghe, 2019, PLoS ONE, 14(2), 1-20

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210900

Type: article

Reading sentences of uniform word length II

Michael Cutter, Denis Drieghe & Simon P Liversedge, 2018, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(4), 1435-1440

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-018-1473-2

Type: article