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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

The morphosyntactic structure of compound words influences parafoveal processing in Chinese reading
Denis Drieghe, Lei Cui, Guoli Yan, Xuejun Bai, Hui Chi & Simon Liversedge, 2018, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 190-197
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1307426
Type: article
The word frequency effect during sentence reading
Sarah J. White, Denis Drieghe, Simon Liversedge & Adrian Staub, 2018, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 46-55
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1240813
Type: article
Parafoveal preview effects in reading unspaced text
Denis Drieghe, Gemma Fitzsimmons & Simon P. Liversedge, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(10), 1701-1716
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000441
Type: article
Spelling ability selectively predicts the magnitude of disruption in unspaced text reading
Aaron Veldre, Denis Drieghe & Sally Andrews, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 1612-1628
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000425
Type: article
Is orthographic information from multiple parafoveal words processed in parallel: an eye- tracking study
Michael, George Cutter, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(8), 1550-1567
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000408
Type: article