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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

Using E-Z reader to examine the consequences of fixation-location measurement error
Erik D. Reichle & Denis Drieghe, 2015, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 41(1), 262-270
DOI: 10.1037/a0037090
Type: article
Parafoveal preview benefit in unspaced and spaced Chinese reading
Lei Cui, Denis Drieghe, Xuejun Bai, Guoli Yan & Simon P. Liversedge, 2014, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(11), 2172-2188
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.909858
Type: article
Preview benefit in English spaced compounds
Michael G. Cutter, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2014, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 40(6), 1778-1786
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000013
Type: article
Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited
Keith Rayner, Elizabeth R. Schotter & Denis Drieghe, 2014, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(4), 1067-1072
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0582-9
Type: article
Skim reading: an adaptive strategy for reading on the web
Gemma Fitzsimmons, Mark Weal & Denis Drieghe, 2014
DOI: 10.1145/2615569.2615682
Type: conference