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 para…
Besides these topics, I'm also interested in a wide range of phenomena, all dealing with eith…

Connect with Denis

Email: D.Drieghe@soton.ac.uk

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

Individual differences in skilled reading and the word frequency effect

Charlotte E. Lee, Hayward Godwin, Hazel I. Blythe & Denis Drieghe, 2025, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 51(8), 1281-1302

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001428

Type: article

New data on text reading in English as a second language: the wave 2 expansion of the multilingual eye movements corpus (MECO)

Victor Kuperman, Sascha Schroeder, Cengiz Acartürk, Niket Agrawal, Lena Bollinger, Jan Brasser, César Campos-Rojas, Denis Drieghe, Dušica Filipović Ðurðević, Sofya Goldina, Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana, Lena A. Jäger, Ómar I. Jóhannesson, Anurag Khare, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne B.S. Knudsen, Árni Kristjánsson, Charlotte E. Lee, Jun Ren Lee, Marina P.T. Leite, Simona Mancini, Nataša Mihajlović, Ksenija Mišić, Miroslava Orekhova, Olga Parshina, Milica Popović Stijačić, Athanassios Protopapas, David R. Reich, Anurag Rimzhim, Rui Rothe-Neves, Thais M.M. Sá, Andrea Santana Covarrubias, Irina Sekerina, Heiða M. Sigurðdardóttir, Anna Smirnova, Priyanka Srivastava, Ivana Ugrinic, Kerem Alp Usal, Karolina Vakulya, Ark Verma, Denise H. Wu, Jin Xue, Sunčica Zdravković, Junjing Zhuo, Laoura Ziaka & Noam Siegelman, 2025, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47(2), 677-695

DOI: 10.1017/S0272263125000105

Type: article

Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in developmental dyslexic reading

Julie A. Kirkby, Rhiannon S. Barrington, Denis Drieghe & Simon P. Liversedge, 2025, Dyslexia, 31(1)

DOI: 10.1002/dys.1791

Type: article

Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2

Diana Esteve, Manuel Perea, Bernhard Angele, Victor Kuperman & Denis Drieghe, 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(6), 2823-2831

DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02529-w

Type: article

The jingle fallacy in comprehension tests for reading

Charlotte E. Lee, Hayward J. Godwin & Denis Drieghe, 2024, PLoS ONE, 19(7 July), e0306466