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.