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Jukka Hyönä is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland and specializes in research intersecting psychology and neuroscience. Their work predominantly focuses on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology, with additional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.

Their research explores a variety of topics including reading and literacy development, text readability and simplification, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, gaze tracking and assistive technology, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and second language acquisition and learning.

Jukka Hyönä has published extensively, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Cognition
  • Infant Behavior and Development

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Universal and specific reading mechanisms across different writing systems," 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "The effects of app-based mindfulness practice on the well-being of university students and staff," 2021, Current Psychology
  • "Eye movements of children and adults reading in three different orthographies," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • "Parafoveal access to word stem during reading: An eye movement study," 2020, Cognition
  • "Compound word frequency modifies the effect of character frequency in reading Chinese," 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their academic activity. Frequent co-authors include Tuomo Häikiö, Hasse Karlsson, Lauri Oksama, Eeva Eskola, and Eeva-Leena Kataja, highlighting an extensive network within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Eye movement assessment of selective attentional capture by emotional pictures.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jukka Hyönä;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Pupil Dilation as a Measure of Processing Load in Simultaneous Interpretation and Other Language Tasks

    Jukka Hyönä;Jorma Tommola;Anna-Mari Alaja

  • Individual Differences in Reading To Summarize Expository Text: Evidence from Eye Fixation Patterns.

    Jukka Hyona;Robert F. Lorch;Johanna K. Kaakinen

  • Utilization of Illustrations during Learning of Science Textbook Passages among Low- and High-Ability Children.

    Matti Hannus;Jukka Hyönä

  • The mind's eye : cognitive and applied aspects of eye movement research

    J. Hyönä;R. Radach;Heiner Deubel

  • Eye fixation patterns among dyslexic and normal readers: Effects of word length and word frequency.

    Jukka Hyönä;Richard K. Olson

  • The Use of Eye Movements in the Study of Multimedia Learning.

    Jukka Hyönä

  • Is multiple object tracking carried out automatically by an early vision mechanism independent of higher‐order cognition? An individual difference approach

    Lauri Oksama;Jukka Hyönä

  • The length of a complex word modifies the role of morphological structure: Evidence from eye movements when reading short and long Finnish compounds

    Raymond Bertram;Jukka Hyönä

  • Development of the letter identity span in reading: Evidence from the eye movement moving window paradigm

    Tuomo Häikiö;Raymond Bertram;Jukka Hyönä;Pekka Niemi

  • The role of morphological constituents in reading Finnish compound words.

    Alexander Pollatsek;Jukka Hyönä;Raymond Bertram

  • Reading finnish compound words : Eye fixations are affected by component morphemes

    Jukka Hyönä;Alexander Pollatsek

  • How prior knowledge, WMC, and relevance of information affect eye fixations in expository text.

    Johanna K. Kaakinen;Jukka Hyönä;Janice M. Keenan

  • Chapter 16 – Eye Movement Measures to Study Global Text Processing

    Jukka Hyönä;Robert F. Lorch;Mike Rinck

  • Perspective Effects on Online Text Processing

    Johanna K. Kaakinen;Jukka Hyönä;Janice M. Keenan

  • Synchronous brain activity across individuals underlies shared psychological perspectives

    Juha M. Lahnakoski;Enrico Glerean;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Jukka Hyönä

  • Ambiguous Pronoun Resolution Contrasting the First-Mention and Subject-Preference Accounts

    Juhani Järvikivi;Juhani Järvikivi;Roger P.G. van Gompel;Jukka Hyönä;Raymond Bertram

  • Perspective Effects on Expository Text Comprehension: Evidence from Think- Aloud Protocols, Eyetracking, and Recall.

    Johanna K. Kaakinen;Jukka Hyona

  • Dynamic binding of identity and location information: a serial model of multiple identity tracking.

    Lauri Oksama;Jukka Hyönä

  • The role of semantic transparency in the processing of Finnish compound words

    Alexander Pollatsek;Jukka Hyönä

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauri Nummenmaa
Lauri Nummenmaa Turku University Hospital
Alexander Pollatsek
Alexander Pollatsek University of Massachusetts Amherst
Matti Laine
Matti Laine Åbo Akademi University
Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi University of Turku
Simon Paul Liversedge
Simon Paul Liversedge University of Central Lancashire
Manuel G. Calvo
Manuel G. Calvo University of La Laguna
Janice M. Keenan
Janice M. Keenan University of Denver
Geoffrey Underwood
Geoffrey Underwood University of Nottingham
Robert F. Lorch
Robert F. Lorch University of Kentucky
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego

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