Bernhard Angele

Dr Bernhard Angele

  • Principal Academic in Psychology
  • Poole House P112, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I obtained an MA degree (in 2009) and a PhD degree on parafoveal processing in reading (in 2013) from the University of California San Diego.

My research interests primarily focus on eye movements during skilled adult reading and language processing. Specifically, I have been studying the effect of parafoveal preview on processing and reading perfomance.

I am currently looking for PhD students. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD related to my research, please don't hesitate to contact me so that we can explore the options available.

Research

My research interests primarily focus on eye movements during skilled adult reading and language processing. Specifically, I have been studying the effect of parafoveal preview on processing and reading perfomance. My current research focuses on how visual attention and language processing combine in order to make efficient reading possible. Specifically, how do readers allocate their attention to follow lines of text and shift their gaze at the proper rate for language processing? Has the attentional system adapted to hold back information until the language processing system is ready to receive it? Or has the language processing system developed the ability to process multiple words at the same time? Eye-tracking methods offer a way to investigate this question. Indeed, the time spent looking at a word is influenced by the parafoveal information that was available about that word while readers were fixating the preceding word. The same is true for making the decision to skip an upcoming word. In this case, I found that readers so strongly rely on the parafoveal information that they ignore contextual cues that contradict it. Another project I have worked on shows that information about the upcoming word can influence processing of the currently fixated word if there is a significant degree of overlap between the two. Much of my research is motivated by predictions from computational models of eye-movement control in reading.

In my research, I am using eye-tracking to study how people control their eyes during reading. I am also interested in auditory distraction, multi-tasking, academic distraction, and education psychology. More broadly, I also have an interest in mathematical models of cognition, evidence synthesis, statistical and measurement theory, and open science and education.

Favourites

  • Vasilev, M.R., Rowan, D., Liversedge, S.P., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2019. Reading Is Disrupted by Intelligible Background Speech: Evidence From Eye-Tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (11), 1484-1512.
  • Vasilev, M.R. and Angele, B., 2017. Parafoveal preview effects from word N + 1 and word N + 2 during reading: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (3), 666-689.
  • Angele, B., Slattery, T.J. and Rayner, K., 2016. Two stages of parafoveal processing during reading: Evidence from a display change detection task. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23 (4), 1241-1249.
  • Angele, B., Schotter, E.R., Slattery, T.J., Tenenbaum, T.L., Bicknell, K. and Rayner, K., 2015. Do successor effects in reading reflect lexical parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye movement data. Journal of Memory and Language, 79–80, 76-96.
  • Angele, B., Tran, R. and Rayner, K., 2013. Parafoveal-Foveal Overlap Can Facilitate Ongoing Word Identification During Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 39 (2), 526-538.
  • Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2013. Processing the in the Parafovea: Are Articles Skipped Automatically? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 39 (2), 649-662.
  • Schotter, E.R., Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2012. Parafoveal processing in reading. ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS, 74 (1), 5-35.

Journal Articles

  • Angele, B., Gutiérrez-Cordero, I., Perea, M. and Marcet, A., 2024. Reading(,) with and without commas. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77 (6), 1190-1200.
  • Esteve, D., Perea, M., Angele, B., Kuperman, V. and Drieghe, D., 2024. Individual differences in word skipping during reading in English as L2. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
  • Mercier, T.M., Budka, M., Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A., Angele, B. and Slattery, T.J., 2024. Dual Input Stream Transformer for Vertical Drift Correction in Eye-Tracking Reading Data. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 46 (12), 8715-8726.
  • Angele, B. and Duñabeitia, J.A., 2024. Closing the eye-tracking gap in reading research. Frontiers in Psychology, 15.
  • Allbritton, D., Gómez, P., Angele, B., Vasilev, M. and Perea, M., 2024. Breathing Life Into Meta-Analytic Methods. Journal of Cognition, 7 (1).
  • Angele, B., Baciero, A., Gómez, P. and Perea, M., 2023. Does online masked priming pass the test? The effects of prime exposure duration on masked identity priming. Behavior Research Methods, 55 (1), 151-167.
  • Mercier, T.M., Budka, M., Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A., Angele, B. and Slattery, T.J., 2023. Dual input stream transformer for eye-tracking line assignment. CoRR, abs/2311.06095.
  • Hills, P.J., Vasilev, M.R., Ford, P., Snell, L., Whitworth, E., Parsons, T., Morisson, R., Silveira, A. and Angele, B., 2021. Sensory gating is related to positive and disorganised schizotypy in contrast to smooth pursuit eye movements and latent inhibition. Neuropsychologia, 161.
  • Wang, J., Angele, B., Ma, G. and Li, X., 2020. Repetition causes confusion: Insights to word segmentation during Chinese reading. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn.
  • Vasilev, M.R., Parmentier, F.B.R., Angele, B. and Kirkby, J.A., 2019. Distraction by deviant sounds during reading: An eye-movement study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (7), 1863-1875.
  • Vasilev, M.R., Rowan, D., Liversedge, S.P., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2019. Reading Is Disrupted by Intelligible Background Speech: Evidence From Eye-Tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (11), 1484-1512.
  • Liu, W., Angele, B., Luo, C. and Li, X., 2018. Beyond the leftward limit of the perceptual span: Parafoveal processing to the left of fixation in Chinese reading. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80 (8), 1873-1878.
  • Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2018. Auditory Distraction During Reading: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of a Continuing Controversy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13 (5), 567-597.
  • Vasilev, M.R., Slattery, T.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2018. What are the costs of degraded parafoveal previews during silent reading? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44 (3), 371-386.
  • Lin, N., Angele, B., Hua, H., Shen, W., Zhou, J. and Li, X., 2018. Skipping of Chinese characters does not rely on word-based processing. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80 (2), 600-607.
  • Zang, C., Zhang, M., Bai, X., Yan, G., Angele, B. and Liversedge, S.P., 2018. Skipping of the very-high-frequency structural particle de in Chinese reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (1 Special Issue), 152-160.
  • Vasilev, M.R. and Angele, B., 2017. Parafoveal preview effects from word N + 1 and word N + 2 during reading: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (3), 666-689.
  • von der Malsburg, T. and Angele, B., 2017. False positives and other statistical errors in standard analyses of eye movements in reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 94, 119-133.
  • Slattery, T.J., Yates, M. and Angele, B., 2016. Interword and interletter spacing effects during reading revisited: Interactions with word and font characteristics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22 (4), 406-422.
  • Angele, B., Slattery, T.J. and Rayner, K., 2016. Two stages of parafoveal processing during reading: Evidence from a display change detection task. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23 (4), 1241-1249.
  • Angele, B., Schotter, E.R., Slattery, T.J., Tenenbaum, T.L., Bicknell, K. and Rayner, K., 2016. Corrigendum to "Do successor effects in reading reflect lexical parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye movement data" [J. Mem. Lang. 79-80 (2015) 76-96] DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.11.003. Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 133-143.
  • von der Malsburg, T. and Angele, B., 2015. False positive rates in standard analyses of eye movements in reading. arXiv:1504.06896 [stat].
  • Angele, B., Schotter, E.R., Slattery, T.J., Tenenbaum, T.L., Bicknell, K. and Rayner, K., 2015. Do successor effects in reading reflect lexical parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye movement data. Journal of Memory and Language, 79–80, 76-96.
  • Abbott, M.J., Angele, B., Ahn, Y.D. and Rayner, K., 2015. Skipping syntactically illegal the previews: The role of predictability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 41 (6), 1703-1714.
  • Angele, B., Laishley, A.E., Rayner, K. and Liversedge, S.P., 2014. The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40 (4), 1181-1203.
  • Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2013. Processing the in the Parafovea: Are Articles Skipped Automatically? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 39 (2), 649-662.
  • Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2013. Eye movements and parafoveal preview of compound words: Does morpheme order matter? QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 66 (3), 505-526.
  • Wang, H.-C., Schotter, E.R., Angele, B., Yang, J., Simovici, D., Pomplun, M. and Rayner, K., 2013. Using singular value decomposition to investigate degraded Chinese character recognition: evidence from eye movements during reading. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING, 36, S35-S50.
  • Angele, B., Tran, R. and Rayner, K., 2013. Parafoveal-Foveal Overlap Can Facilitate Ongoing Word Identification During Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 39 (2), 526-538.
  • Rayner, K., Angele, B., Schotter, E.R. and Bicknell, K., 2013. On the processing of canonical word order during eye fixations in reading: Do readers process transposed word previews? VISUAL COGNITION, 21 (3), 353-381.
  • Schotter, E.R., Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2012. Parafoveal processing in reading. ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS, 74 (1), 5-35.
  • Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2011. Parafoveal Processing of Word n+2 During Reading: Do the Preceding Words Matter? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 37 (4), 1210-1220.
  • Slattery, T.J., Angele, B. and Rayner, K., 2011. Eye Movements and Display Change Detection During Reading. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 37 (6), 1924-1938.
  • Angele, B., Slattery, T.J., Yang, J., Kliegl, R. and Rayner, K., 2008. Parafoveal processing in reading: Manipulating n + 1 and n + 2 previews simultaneously. Visual Cognition, 16 (6), 697-707.

Conferences

  • Angele, B., Rocabado, F. and Duñabeitia, J.A., 2020. Predicting the unpredicted: No relationship between ‘the’-skipping and response inhibition. In: EPS Online 2020 2 July 2020 Online.
  • Angele, B., Schotter, E.R., Slattery, T.J., Chaloukian, T.L., Bicknell, K. and Rayner, K., 2014. Do successor effects in reading reflect parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye-movement data. In: Newcastle Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) 16-18 July 2014 Newcastle.
  • Angele, B., Abbot, M., Ahn, Y.D., Laishley, A., Liversedge, S.P. and Rayner, K., 2014. Parafoveal and contextual influences on word skipping. In: 6th Chinese International Conference on Eye Movements 5-9 May 2014 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Angele, B., Laishley, A.E., Rayner, K. and Liversedge, S.P., 2013. The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping. In: 17th European Conference on Eye Movements 11-16 August 2013 Lund, Sweden. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6 (3).

Preprints

PhD Students

  • Martin Vasilev, 2018. The determinants of auditory distraction during reading: An eye-movement investigation
  • Rui Wang, 2018. Audiovisual Perception of Mandarin Lexical Tones

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Advanced Statistics (Masters)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Cognition and Language
  • Eye tracking, cognition, and communication

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Typography and Eyemovements (14 Jun 2016)

Conference Presentations

  • 56th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Eye movements and the effect of word frequency on display change detection during reading., 19 Nov 2015, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 56th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, The skipping of the function word “de” (的) in Chinese reading., 19 Nov 2015, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Pre-Psychonomics Word Recognition Conference, Multiple comparisons and false positive rates in eye tracking studies of reading behavior, 18 Nov 2015, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 18th European Conference on Eye Movements, Eye movements and the effect of word frequency on display change detection during reading, 16 Aug 2015, Vienna, Austria
  • 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, False-positive rates in eyetracking studies with multiple dependent measures, 01 Jul 2015, Valencia, Spain
  • 55th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, . Do successor effects in reading reflect parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye-movement data, 20 Nov 2014, Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Newcastle Meeting, Do successor effects in reading reflect parafoveal processing? Evidence from corpus-based and experimental eye-movement data, 16 Jul 2014, Newcastle
  • 17th European Conference on Eye Movements, The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping, 11 Aug 2013, Lund, Sweden
  • 54th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Do readers obtain preview benefit from transposed words in English?, 15 Nov 2012, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Do readers obtain preview benefit from transposed words in English?, 14 Mar 2012, New York, NY, USA

Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology (University of California San Diego, 2013)

Memberships

  • Higher Education Academy (Advance HE), Fellow (2018-),
  • Experimental Psychology Society, Member (2015-),
  • Psychonomic Society, Fellow,