Jukka
Hyönä
Docent, Psychology
PhD
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Areas of expertise
cognitive psychology
psychology of language
visual attention
Biography
I received my PhD degree in psychology in 1993 from the University of Turku (Finland), where I now serve as a professor of psychology and the Head of the Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology.
Teaching
I teach courses on cognitive psychology and psychology of language. I also supervise BA, MA and PhD theses.
Research
My main research focus is on the use of the eye-tracking method to study various visually based cognitive tasks, including, reading and text comprehension, multiple object tracking, attentional capture and recognition of peripherally presented stimuli. The emphasis is on capturing how processing of visual stimuli evolves over time. To date, my most significant scientific contributions have been made to the study of how the eyes (and visual attention) are guided through a written text. In that domain, my studies tap into different levels of written language comprehension – from word recognition via sentence parsing to comprehension of long expository texts. I have also applied the method to study attentional processes and eye guidance during reading. My research has been published in journals such as Journal of Memory and Language, Psychological Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology. I have published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Publications
Influence of text cohesion on the persuasive power of expository text (2011)
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Reading disappearing text: Why do children refixate words? (2011)
Vision Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Influence of a psychological perspective on scene viewing and memory for scenes (2011)
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
PROCESSING MODIFIER-HEAD AGREEMENT IN LONG FINNISH WORDS: EVIDENCE FROM EYE MOVEMENTS (2011)
Acta Linguistica Hungarica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Online processing of and memory for perspective relevant and irrelevant text information (2011)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Dissociating spatial and letter-based word length effects observed in readers' eye movement patterns (2011)
Vision Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Existence of a Hypnotic State Revealed by Eye Movements (2011)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Impact of Salient Advertisements on Reading and Attention on Web Pages (2011)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Morphology in language comprehension, production and acquisition: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes (2011)
Language and Cognitive Processes
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))
Facilitatory and inhibitatory effects of grammatical agreement: Evidence from readers' eye fixation patterns (2011)
Acta Linguistica Hungarica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))