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Dr Denis Drieghe BSc, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor, Erasmus and Exchange Coordinator

Dr Denis Drieghe is Associate Professor within Psychology at the University of Southampton.

I am an Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods at the Psychology Department. I started my academic career at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium where I got my PhD in Experimental Psychology. After my PhD I was able to secure consecutive positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders for a total of 5 years. During my time in Ghent, I also obtained multiple grants to go abroad for research visits. Spread over three separate visits, I spent a total of 2.5 years working at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA (USA). On February 1st, 2009 I arrived at Southampton University for what was supposed to be another one year research visit. However, I was getting so much work done and having so much fun doing it, that I decided to stick around a bit longer. On September 1st, 2010, I started my position at Southampton University as a lecturer in quantitative methods and became a senior lecturer after a year, a position later rebranded into Associate Professor.

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Research interests

My research can be situated in the field of eye movements during reading and is focused on a number of issues mainly but not exclusively concerning 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). Recently, I have also started working on reading in languages that are either non-alphabetic such as Chinese or use an alphabet different from the latin alphabet, such as Arabic. Another line of research I have pursued in the past and continue to do work on deals with bilingualism and how people read in their non-native language. Besides these questions, 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.

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Centre for Vision and Cognition (CVC)

Research project(s)

Eye movements during reading

Psychological processes active during the processing of written linguistic material

I am the REF Champion for Psychology as well as the Erasmus and Exchange Coordinator. I am also a member of the Ethical Committee for Psychology and a Member of the Centre for Visual Cognition and I make coffee for my collaborators and students.

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Articles

Yu, L., Xiong, J., Zhang, Q., Drieghe, D., & Reichle, E. (2018). Eye-movement evidence for the mental representation of strokes in Chinese characters. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 1-26.
Hermena, E., Liversedge, S., Bouamama, S., & Drieghe, D. (2018). Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic: evidence from eye movements and lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 1-68.
Cutter, M., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. P. (2018). Reading sentences of uniform word length II: very rapid adaptation of the preferred saccade length. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(4), 1435-1440. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-018-1473-2
Drieghe, D., Cui, L., Yan, G., Bai, X., Chi, H., & Liversedge, S. (2018). The morphosyntactic structure of compound words influences parafoveal processing in Chinese reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 71(1), 190-197. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1307426
White, S. J., Drieghe, D., Liversedge, S., & Staub, A. (2018). The word frequency effect during sentence reading: A linear or nonlinear effect of log frequency? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 71(1), 46-55. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1240813
Dirix, N., Cop, U., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2017). Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43(6), 887-915. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000352
Cutter, M. G., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. (2017). Is orthographic information from multiple parafoveal words processed in parallel: an eye- tracking study. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(8), 1550-1567. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000408
Drieghe, D., Fitzsimmons, G., & Liversedge, S. P. (2017). Parafoveal preview effects in reading unspaced text. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43(10), 1701-1716. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000441
Cop, U., Dirix, N. I., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2017). Presenting GECO: an eye-tracking corpus of monolingual and bilingual sentence reading. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 602-615. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-016-0734-0
Cop, U., Dirix, N., Van Assche, E., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2017). Reading a book in one or two languages? An eye movement study of cognate facilitation in L1 and L2 reading. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(4), 747-769. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000213
Cutter, M. G., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. (2017). Reading sentences of uniform word length: evidence for the adaptation of the preferred saccade length during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 43, 1895 - 1911. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000416
Veldre, A., Drieghe, D., & Andrews, S. (2017). Spelling ability selectively predicts the magnitude of disruption in unspaced text reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 1612-1628. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000425
Hermena, E., Liversedge, S., & Drieghe, D. (2017). The influence of a words’ number of letters, spatial extent, and initial bigram characteristics on eye movement control during reading: evidence from Arabic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 43(3), 451–471. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000319
Reingold, E., Sheridan, H., Meadmore, K., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. (2016). Attention and eye-movement control in reading: the selective reading paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 42, 2003-2020. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000291
Hermena, E., Liversedge, S., & Drieghe, D. (2016). Parafoveal processing of Arabic diacritical marks. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 42, 2021-2038. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000294
Zang, C., Wang, Y., Bai, X., Yan, G., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. P. (2016). The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 69(3), 548-560. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1061030
Liversedge, S. P., Drieghe, D., Li, X., Yan, G., Bai, X., & Hyönä, J. (2016). Universality in eye movements and reading: a trilingual investigation. Cognition, 147, 1-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.10.013
Yu, L., Cutter, M., Yan, G., Bai, X., Fu, Y., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. (2016). Word n+2 preview effects in three-character chinese idioms and phrases. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(9), 1130-1149. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1197954
Cop, U., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2015). Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel. PLoS ONE, 10(8), 1-38. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134008
Cop, U., Keuleers, E., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2015). Frequency effects in monolingual and bilingual natural reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(5), 1216-1234. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0819-2
Hermena, E. W., Drieghe, D., Hellmuth, S., & Liversedge, S. P. (2015). Processing of Arabic diacritical marks: phonological–syntactic disambiguation of homographic verbs and visual crowding effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 41(2), 494-507. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000032
Reichle, E. D., & Drieghe, D. (2015). Using E-Z reader to examine the consequences of fixation-location measurement error. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 41(1), 262-270. DOI: 10.1037/a0037090
Rayner, K., Schotter, E. R., & Drieghe, D. (2014). Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(4), 1067-1072. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0582-9
Cui, L., Drieghe, D., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Liversedge, S. P. (2014). Parafoveal preview benefit in unspaced and spaced Chinese reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 67(11), 2172-2188. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.909858
Cutter, M. G., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. P. (2014). Preview benefit in English spaced compounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 40(6), 1778-1786. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000013
Liversedge, S. P., Zang, C., Zhang, M., Bai, X., Yan, G., & Drieghe, D. (2014). The effect of visual complexity and word frequency on eye movements during Chinese reading. Visual Cognition, 22(3-4), 441-457. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2014.889260
Fitzsimmons, G., & Drieghe, D. (2013). How fast can predictability influence word skipping during reading? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 39(4), 1054-1063. DOI: 10.1037/a0030909
Kuperman, V., Drieghe, D., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). How strongly do word reading times and lexical decision times correlate? Combining data from eye movement corpora and megastudies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(3), 563-580. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.658820
Kirkby, J. A., Blythe, H. I., Drieghe, D., Benson, V., & Liversedge, S. P. (2013). Investigating eye movement acquisition and analysis technologies as a causal factor in differential prevalence of crossed and uncrossed fixation disparity during reading and dot scanning. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 664-678. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0301-2
Cui, L., Drieghe, D., Yan, G., Bai, X., Chi, H., & Liversedge, S. P. (2013). Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B, 66(2), 403-416. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.720265
Reichle, E. D., Liversedge, S. P., Drieghe, D., Blythe, H. I., Joseph, H. S. S. L., White, S. S. J., & Rayner, K. (2013). Using E-Z Reader to examine the concurrent development of eye-movement control and reading skill. Developmental Review, 33(2), 110-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2013.03.001
Reichle, E. D., & Drieghe, D. (2013). Using E-Z reader to examine word skipping during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 39(4), 1311-1320. DOI: 10.1037/a0030910
Godwin, H. J., Benson, V., & Drieghe, D. (2013). Using interrupted visual displays to explore the capacity, time course and format of fixation plans during visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 39(6), 1700-1712. DOI: 10.1037/a0032287
Liversedge, S. P., Blythe, H. I., & Drieghe, D. (2012). Beyond isolated word recognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(5), 31-32. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000210
Rayner, K., Slattery, T. J., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. P. (2011). Eye movements and word skipping during reading: effects of word length and predictability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(2), 514-528. DOI: 10.1037/a0020990
Kirkby, J., Blythe, H. I., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. P. (2011). Reading text increases binocular disparity in dyslexic children. PLoS ONE, 6(11), 1-7. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027105.t004
Fitzsimmons, G., & Drieghe, D. (2011). The influence of number of syllables on word skipping during reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(4), 736-741. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0105-x
Van Assche, E., Drieghe, D., Duyck, W., Welvaert, M., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2011). The influence of semantic constraints on bilingual word recognition during sentence reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(1), 88-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.08.006
Staub, A., White, S. J., Drieghe, D., Hollway, E. C., & Rayner, K. (2010). Distributional effects of word frequency on eye fixation durations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(5), 1280-1293. DOI: 10.1037/a0016896
Drieghe, D., Pollatsek, A., Juhasz, B. J., & Rayner, K. (2010). Parafoveal processing during reading is reduced across a morphological boundary. Cognition, 116(1), 136-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.016
Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Stockall, L., & de Almeida, R. G. (2010). The interpretation of ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence context. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(1), 88-94. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.1.88
Van der Haegen, L., Drieghe, D., & Brysbaert, M. (2010). The Split Fovea Theory and the Leicester critique: what do the data say? Neuropsychologia, 48(1), 96-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.014
Grondelaers, S., Speelman, D., Drieghe, D., Brysbaert, M., & Geeraerts, D. (2009). Introducing a new entity into discourse: comprehension and production evidence for the status of dutch er ‘‘there” as a higher-level expectancy monitor. Acta Psychologica, 130(2), 153-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.11.003
Juhasz, B. J., Pollatsek, A., Hyönä, J., Drieghe, D., & Rayner, K. (2009). Parafoveal processing within and between words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(7), 1356-1376. DOI: 10.1080/17470210802400010
Drieghe, D. (2008). Foveal processing and word skipping during reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(4), 856-860. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.856
Vandierendonck, A., Deschuyteneer, M., Depoorter, A., & Drieghe, D. (2008). Input monitoring and response selection as components of executive control in pro-saccades and anti-saccades. Psychological Research, 72, 1-11. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-006-0078-y
Drieghe, D., Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (2008). Mislocated fixations can account for parafoveal-on-foveal effects in eye movements during reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(8), 1239-1249. DOI: 10.1080/17470210701467953
Drieghe, D., Pollatsek, A., Staub, A., & Rayner, K. (2008). The word grouping hypothesis and eye movements during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(6), 1552-1560. DOI: 10.1037/a0013017
Joosten, F., De Sutter, G., Drieghe, D., Grondelaers, S., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Speelman, D. (2007). Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling. Linguistics, 45(1), 85-132. DOI: 10.1515/LING.2007.003
Drieghe, D., Desmet, T., & Brysbaert, M. (2007). How important are linguistic factors in word skipping during reading? British Journal of Psychology, 98(1), 157-171. DOI: 10.1348/000712606X111258
Rayner, K., Pollatsek, A., Drieghe, D., Slattery, T. J., & Reichle, E. D. (2007). Tracking the mind during reading via eye movements: Comments on Kliegl, Nuthmann, and Engbert (2006). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(3), 520-529. DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.520
Duyck, W., Van Assche, E., Drieghe, D., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2007). Visual word recognition by bilinguals in a sentence context: Evidence for nonselective lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4), 663-679. DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.4.663
Desmet, T., De Baecke, C., Drieghe, D., Brysbaert, M., & Vonk, W. (2006). Relative clause attachment in Dutch: on-line comprehension corresponds to corpus frequencies when lexical variables are taken into account. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21(4), 453-485. DOI: 10.1080/01690960400023485
Drieghe, D., Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (2005). Eye movements and word skipping during reading revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(5), 954-969. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.5.954
Drieghe, D., Brysbaert, M., & Desmet, T. (2005). Parafoveal-on-foveal effects on eye movements in text reading: does an extra space make a difference? Vision Research, 45(13), 1693-1706. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.01.010
Duyck, W., Diependaele, K., Drieghe, D., & Brysbaert, M. (2004). The size of the cross-lingual masked phonological priming effect does not depend on second language proficiency. Experimental Psychology, 51(2), 116-124. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.51.2.116
Drieghe, D., Brysbaert, M., Desmet, T., & De Baecke, C. (2004). Word skipping in reading: on the interplay of linguistic and visual factors. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16(1&2), 79-103. DOI: 10.1080/09541440340000141
Brysbaert, M., & Drieghe, D. (2003). Please stop using word frequency data that are likely to be word length effects in disguise. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(4), 479-479. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X03240103
Drieghe, D., & Brysbaert, M. (2002). Strategic effects in associative priming with words, homophones and pseudohomophones. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28(5), 951-961. DOI: 10.1037//0278-7393.28.5.951

Book Chapters

Cutter, M., Drieghe, D., & Liversedge, S. (2015). How is information integrated across fixations in reading? In A. Pollatsek, & R. Treiman (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Reading (pp. 245-260). (Oxford Library of Psychology). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Drieghe, D. (2011). Parafoveal-on-foveal effects on eye movements during reading. In S. Liversedge, I. Gilchrist, & S. Everling (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Eye Movements (pp. 839-855). (Oxford Library of Psychology). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Brysbaert, M., Drieghe, D., & Vitu, F. (2005). Word skipping: implications for theories of eye movement control in reading. In G. Underwood (Ed.), Cognitive Processes in Eye Guidance (pp. 53-77). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

Conferences

Fitzsimmons, G., Weal, M., & Drieghe, D. (2014). Skim reading: an adaptive strategy for reading on the web. 211-219. Paper presented at WebSci '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science, United States.DOI: 10.1145/2615569.2615682
Fitzsimmons, G., Weal, M. J., & Drieghe, D. (2013). Measuring the impact of hyperlinks on reading. 23. Paper presented at 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, Sweden.
Fitzsimmons, G., Weal, M. J., & Drieghe, D. (2013). On measuring the impact of hyperlinks on reading. 65-74. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '13), France.DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464501
Drieghe, D., & Fitzsimmons, G. (2011). How fast can predictability influence word skipping during reading?. Poster session presented at European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2011), France.
Drieghe, D., & Fitzsimmons, G. (2011). How fast can predictability influence word skipping during reading?. Paper presented at 52nd Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, United States.
Drieghe, D., & Fitzsimmons, G. (2011). The influence of number of syllables on word skipping during reading. Paper presented at European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2011), France.

I teach the Statistical Programming in R module (PSYC6055) for postgraduate students and Advanced Quantitative Research Skills as an optional module (PSYC3064) for the BSc in Psychology program. I also give a Thinking Psychologically (PSYC1005) tutorial. During Easter Break I teach a three day intensive course on Programming in R and Linear Mixed Models for PGR students and members of staff. I also supervise 3rd year students for their Literature Review (PSYC3003) and Research Project (PSYC3005).

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