Tuomo
Häikiö
University Lecturer, Psychology
Areas of expertise
Reading
reading development
eye movements
Biography
I graduated from the Department of Psychology at University of Turku in 2003. In my master's thesis I looked into the processing of emotional content in the parafoveal vision in reading. In my PhD studies I studied reading development using eye movement tracking as a tool. I completed my PhD in 2011. Since then, I've continued examining reading and writing of early readers using eye tracking. I've gained media coverage with my findings that hyphenation at syllable level slows down readers already very early in their education.
Teaching
I teach statistical methodology in psychology.
Research
I'm mostly interested in the development of reading. I use eye movement registration as my main method.
Publications
Visual attention to nitrite-free and plant-based sausages alternatives: Effect of information and cross-cultural differences between Ireland and Finland (2026)
Food Quality and Preference
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Learning Irony in School: Effects of Metapragmatic Training (2025)
Journal of Child Language
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Paternal adverse childhood experiences and offspring’s attentional disengagement from faces at 8 months—Results from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2025)
PLoS ONE
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Science capital: Results from a Finnish population survey (2025)
Public Understanding of Science
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Epistemically Suspect Beliefs About COVID‐19: Results From a Population Survey in Finland (2025)
Applied Cognitive Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Impact of awe on topic interest and recognition memory for information in planetarium films (2024)
Cognition and Emotion
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
LASTU: A psycholinguistic search tool for Finnish lexical stimuli (2024)
Behavior Research Methods
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Reciprocal relationships between a child’s engagement with faces and mother–child interaction at 8, 30, and 60 months (2024)
Developmental Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy (2024)
Infant Behavior and Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
Developmental Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )