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Dr Denis Drieghe BSc, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor, Erasmus and Exchange Coordinator

Denis Drieghe joined the Psychology department of the University of Southampton in 2009. He is an Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology, and his research involves recording eye movements to examine cognitive processing during reading.

He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Ghent University in Belgium working with Marc Brysbaert where he also obtained his BSc and MSc (named 'licenciaat' at the time). He obtained consecutive positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders for a total of 5 years. During his time in Ghent, he also obtained multiple grants to go abroad for research visits. Spread over three separate visits, he spent a total of 2.5 years working with Keith Rayner and Sandy Pollatsek at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA (USA). He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton working with Simon Liversedge before taking on a lectureship in the Psychology department in 2010.

Denis is an Associate Editor for Behavior Research Methods (since 2020) and Psychologica Belgica (since 2014). His research has been funded by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, the Leverhulme Trust, the Experimental Psychological Society and the Australian Research Council.

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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 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). Additionally, my research has examined reading in multiple languages (English, Dutch, Finnish, Chinese, Arabic), and has directly compared reading in different languages both between native speakers and within bilinguals. Recent projects involved looking at task effects during reading (e.g. reading for comprehension versus skimming) and individual differences in reading (e.g. spelling skills and reading ability). Besides these topics, 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 Perception and Cognition (CPC)

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Eye movements during reading

Psychological processes active during the processing of written linguistic material

REF Champion for Psychology
Erasmus and Exchange Coordinator
Member of the Ethical Committee for Psychology
Member of the Centre for Perception and Cognition and I make coffee for my collaborators and students.

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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 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 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 University Press.

Conferences

Fitzsimmons, G., Weal, M., & Drieghe, D. (Accepted/In press). Reading, processing and interacting with hypertext on the Web. Paper presented at 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2016), Poole, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.14
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, Bloomington, United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/2615569.2615682
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), Paris, France. https://doi.org/10.1145/2464464.2464501

PSYC3064 Advanced Quantitative Research Skills – module coordinator
PSYC6055 Statistical Programming in R – module coordinator
In Easter break, I always teach a 3-day intensive course on Programming in R and Linear Mixed Models open to PhD students, postdocs and members of staff – module coordinator
PSYC2021 Language and Memory
PSYC3003 Literature Review
PSYC3005 Research Project

Dr Denis Drieghe
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