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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

Reading a book in one or two languages? An eye movement study of cognate facilitation in L1 and L2 reading
Uschi Cop, Nicolas Dirix, Eva Van Assche, Denis Drieghe & Wouter Duyck, 2017, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(4), 747-769
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000213
Type: article
Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading
Nicolas Dirix, Uschi Cop, Denis Drieghe & Wouter Duyck, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43(6), 887-915
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000352
Type: article
Presenting GECO: an eye-tracking corpus of monolingual and bilingual sentence reading
Uschi Cop, NIcolas Dirix, Denis Drieghe & Wouter Duyck, 2017, Behavior Research Methods, 49, 602-615
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-016-0734-0
Type: article
The influence of a words’ number of letters, spatial extent, and initial bigram characteristics on eye movement control during reading: evidence from Arabic
Ehab W. Hermena, Simon Liversedge & Denis Drieghe, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43(3), 451–471
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000319
Type: article
Reading sentences of uniform word length
Michael, George Cutter, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2017, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43, 1895 - 1911
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000416
Type: article