Explanipedia

Correction: The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa Open

Julie A. Kirkby, Maddy Greville-Harris, Rachel Moseley · 2025

The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa Open

Julie A. Kirkby, Maddy Greville-Harris, Rachel Moseley · 2025

Unexpected sounds induce a rapid inhibition of eye‐movement responses Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Zeynep Gunes Ozkan, Julie A. Kirkby, Antje Nuthmann, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier · 2024

Unexpected sounds have been shown to trigger a global and transient inhibition of motor responses. Recent evidence suggests that eye movements may also be inhibited in a similar way, but it is not clear how quickly unexpected sounds can af…

Parafoveal Processing and Transposed‐Letter Effects in Developmental Dyslexic Reading Open

Julie A. Kirkby, Rhiannon S. Barrington, Denis Drieghe, Simon P. Liversedge · 2024

During reading, adults and children independently parafoveally encode letter identity and letter position information using a flexible letter position encoding mechanism. The current study examined parafoveal encoding of letter position an…

GazeGenie: Enhancing Multi-Line Reading Research with an Innovative User-Friendly Tool Open

Thomas M. Mercier, Marcin Budka, Bernhard Angele, Martin R. Vasilev, Timothy J. Slattery , et al. · 2024

In the study of reading, eye-tracking technology offers unique insights into the time-course of how individuals extract information from text. A significant hurdle in using multi-line paragraph stimuli is the need to align eye gaze positio…

Unexpected sounds induce a rapid inhibition of eye-movement responses Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Zeynep Gunes Ozkan, Julie A. Kirkby, Antje Nuthmann, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier · 2024

Unexpected sounds have been shown to trigger a global and transient inhibition of motor responses. Recent evidence suggests that eye movements may also be inhibited in a similar way, but it is not clear how quickly unexpected sounds can af…

Online Processing Shows Advantages of Bimodal Listening‐While‐Reading for Vocabulary Learning: An Eye‐Tracking Study Open

Alessandra Valentini, Rachel E. Pye, Carmel Houston‐Price, Jessie Ricketts, Julie A. Kirkby · 2023

Children can learn words incidentally from stories. This kind of learning is enhanced when stories are presented both aurally and in written format, compared to just a written presentation. However, we do not know why this bimodal presenta…

Dual input stream transformer for vertical drift correction in eye-tracking reading data Open

Thomas M. Mercier, Marcin Budka, Martin R. Vasilev, Julie A. Kirkby, Bernhard Angele , et al. · 2023

We introduce a novel Dual Input Stream Transformer (DIST) for the challenging problem of assigning fixation points from eye-tracking data collected during passage reading to the line of text that the reader was actually focused on. This po…

Children’s Reading of Sublexical Units in Years Three to Five: A Combined Analysis of Eye-Movements and Voice Recording Open

Victoria I. Adedeji, Julie A. Kirkby, Martin R. Vasilev, Timothy J. Slattery · 2023

Purpose Children progress from making grapheme–phoneme connections to making grapho-syllabic connections before whole-word connections during reading development (Ehri, 2005a). More is known about the development of grapheme–phoneme connec…

Unexpected sounds inhibit the movement of the eyes during reading and letter scanning Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Michael Lowman, Katherine Bills, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Julie A. Kirkby · 2023

Novel sounds that unexpectedly deviate from a repetitive sound sequence are well known to cause distraction. Such unexpected sounds have also been shown to cause global motor inhibition, suggesting that they trigger a neurophysiological re…

Unexpected sounds inhibit the movement of the eyes during reading and letter scanning Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Michael Lowman, Katherine Bills, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Julie A. Kirkby · 2023

Novel sounds that unexpectedly deviate from a repetitive sound sequence are well known to cause distraction. Such unexpected sounds have also been shown to cause global motor inhibition, suggesting that they trigger a neurophysiological re…

Parafoveal processing and transposed‐letter effects in dyslexic reading Open

Julie A. Kirkby, Rhiannon S. Barrington, Denis Drieghe, Simon P. Liversedge · 2022

During parafoveal processing, skilled readers encode letter identity independently of letter position (Johnson et al., 2007). In the current experiment, we examined orthographic parafoveal processing in readers with dyslexia. Specifically,…

Return-sweep saccades in oral reading Open

Victoria I. Adedeji, Martin R. Vasilev, Julie A. Kirkby, Timothy J. Slattery · 2021

Recent research on return-sweep saccades has improved our understanding of eye movements when reading paragraphs. However, these saccades, which take our gaze from the end of one line to the start of the next line, have been studied only w…

Reading is disrupted by intelligible background speech: Evidence from eye-tracking. Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Simon P. Liversedge, Daniel J. Rowan, Julie A. Kirkby, Bernhard Angele · 2019

It is not well understood whether background speech affects the initial processing of words during reading or only the later processes of sentence integration. Additionally, it is not clear how eye movements support text comprehension in t…

Binocular coordination and return-sweep saccades among skilled adult readers Open

Adam J Parker, Mirela Nikolova, Timothy J. Slattery, Simon P. Liversedge, Julie A. Kirkby · 2019

During reading, binocular coordination ensures that a unified perceptual representation of the text is maintained across eye movements. However, slight vergence errors exist. The magnitude of disparity at fixation onset is related to the l…

Undersweep-fixations during reading in adults and children Open

Adam J Parker, Julie A. Kirkby, Timothy J. Slattery · 2019

Return sweeps take a reader’s fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade toward the left margin. The pauses prior to corrective sacc…

Reading is disrupted by intelligible background speech: Evidence from eye-tracking (data and materials) Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Simon P. Liversedge, Daniel J. Rowan, Julie A. Kirkby, Bernhard Angele · 2019

Distraction by deviant sounds during reading: An eye-movement study Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Fabrice B. R. Parmentier, Bernhard Angele, Julie A. Kirkby · 2018

Oddball studies have shown that sounds unexpectedly deviating from an otherwise repeated sequence capture attention away from the task at hand. While such distraction is typically regarded as potentially important in everyday life, previou…

Auditory Distraction During Reading: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of a Continuing Controversy Open

Martin R. Vasilev, Julie A. Kirkby, Bernhard Angele · 2018

Everyday reading occurs in different settings, such as on the train to work, in a busy cafeteria, or at home while listening to music. In these situations, readers are exposed to external auditory stimulation from nearby noise, speech, or …

Comments on: “What Is Developmental Dyslexia?” Brain Sci. 2018, 8, 26. The Relationship between Eye Movements and Reading Difficulties Open

Hazel I. Blythe, Julie A. Kirkby, Simon P. Liversedge · 2018

We are writing in response to the review article: Stein. J. (2018). What is Developmental Dyslexia? Brain Sciences, 8, 26, doi:10.3390/brainsci8020026. We consider that the section entitled, “Eye Movement Control”, presents a misleading ch…

Self-reported sex differences in high-functioning adults with autism: a meta-analysis Open

Rachel Moseley, R. Hitchiner, Julie A. Kirkby · 2018

Predictability effects during reading in the absence of parafoveal preview Open

Adam J Parker, Julie A. Kirkby, Timothy J. Slattery · 2017

The predictability of upcoming words facilitates both spoken and written language comprehension. One interesting difference between these language modalities is that readers' routinely have access to upcoming words in parafoveal vision whi…

Julie A. Kirkby YOU? Author Swipe