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

Attention and eye-movement control in reading: the selective reading paradigm

Eyal Reingold, Heather Sheridan, Katie Meadmore, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2016, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 42, 2003-2020

DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000291

Type: article

Parafoveal processing of Arabic diacritical marks

Ehab Hermena, Simon Liversedge & Denis Drieghe, 2016, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 42, 2021-2038

DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000294

Type: article

Word n+2 preview effects in three-character chinese idioms and phrases

Lili Yu, Michael Cutter, Guoli Yan, Xuejun Bai, Yu Fu, Denis Drieghe & Simon Liversedge, 2016, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(9), 1130-1149

DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1197954

Type: article

Reading, processing and interacting with hypertext on the Web

Gemma Fitzsimmons, Mark Weal & Denis Drieghe, 2016