Publications

Research outputs

Complete publication list. Click any publication title to open the paper, journal page, or preprint.

Preprints

Eye-Voice Coordination during Children and Adult’s Multiline Reading.

Adedeji, V. I., Slattery, T., Kirkby, J. A., & Vasilev, M. R. (preprint).

From words to phrases: How phrase-level frequency affects natural reading in L1 and L2 speakers.

Sui, L., Li, W., & Vasilev, M. R. (preprint).

Distraction by unexpected sounds during passage reading and dynamic scene viewing.

Vasilev, M. R., Ozkan, Z. G., Wu, J., Kirkby, J., Parmentier, F. B. R., & Nuthmann, A. (preprint).

2026

Webcams can be used to study eye movements during reading.

Serrano-Carot, M., Angele, B., Xu, H., & Vasilev, M. R. (in print). Behavior Research Methods.

2025

Are the differences between intra-line and return-sweep fixation durations driven by linguistic, oculomotor, or visual processing? A comparison of eye movements during reading and z-string scanning.

Parker, A. J., Tao, M., & Vasilev, M. R. (2025). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

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

Vasilev, M. R., Ozkan, Z. G., Kirkby, J., Nuthmann, A., & Parmentier, F. (2025). Psychophysiology, 62(1), e14728.

2024

Breathing life into meta-analytic methods.

Allbritton, D., Gomez, P., Angele, B., Vasilev, M. R., & Perea, M. (2024). Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 61, 1–17.

Dual input stream transformer for eye-tracking line assignment.

Mercier, T. M., Budka, M., Vasilev, M. R., Kirkby, J. A., Angele, B., & Slattery, T. J. (2024). IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1–12.

2023

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

Vasilev, M. R., Lowman, M., Bills, K., Parmentier, F. B. R., & Kirkby, J. A. (2023). Psychophysiology, 1–19.

Children’s reading of sublexical units in grades three to five: A combined analysis of eye-movements and voice recording.

Adedeji, V. I., Vasilev, M. R., Kirkby, J. A., & Slattery, T. J. (2023). Scientific Studies of Reading, 1–20.

What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading.

Vasilev, M. R., Hitching, L., & Tyrrell, S. (2023). Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1–27.

2022

Return-sweep saccades in oral reading.

Adedeji, V. I., Vasilev, M. R., Kirkby, J. A., & Slattery, T. J. (2022). Psychological Research, 86, 1804–1815.

2021

Tracking arousal: A meta-analytic review of pupil responses to sexual stimuli.

Attard-Johnson, J., Vasilev, M. R., Ó Ciardha, C., Bindemann, M., & Babchishin, K. (2021). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 3385–3411.

Sensory gating is related to positive and disorganised schizotypy in contrast with smooth pursuit eye movements and latent inhibition.

Hills, P. J., Vasilev, M. R., De Vai, R. L., Mahabeer, A., Morisson, R., Silveira, A., & Angele, B. (2021). Neuropsychologia, 162, 107989.

Do readers use character information when programming return-sweep saccades?

Vasilev, M. R., Adedeji, V. I., Laursen, C., Budka, M., & Slattery, T. J. (2021). Vision Research, 183, 30–40.

Distraction by auditory novelty during reading: Evidence for disruption in saccade planning, but not saccade execution.

Vasilev, M. R., Parmentier, F. B. R., & Kirkby, J. A. (2021). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(5), 826–842.

Parafoveal degradation during reading reduces preview costs only when it is not perceptually distinct.

Vasilev, M. R., Yates, M., Prueitt, E., & Slattery, T. J. (2021). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2), 254–276.

2019

Do readers integrate phonological codes across saccades? A Bayesian meta-analysis and a survey of the unpublished literature.

Vasilev, M. R., Yates, M., & Slattery, T. J. (2019). Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 43, 1–29.

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

Vasilev, M. R., Liversedge, S. P., Rowan, D., Kirkby, J. A., & Angele, B. (2019). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(11), 1484–1512.

An eye-movement exploration into return-sweep targeting during reading.

Slattery, T. J., & Vasilev, M. R. (2019). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(5), 1197–1203.

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

Vasilev, M. R., Parmentier, F. B. R., Angele, B., & Kirkby, J. A. (2019). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7), 1863–1875.

Surprise as an explanation to auditory novelty distraction and post-error slowing.

Parmentier, F. B. R., Vasilev, M. R., & Andrés, P. (2019). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 192–200.

2018

Auditory distraction during reading: A Bayesian meta-analysis of a continuing controversy.

Vasilev, M. R., Kirkby, J. A., & Angele, B. (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(5), 567–597.

What are the costs of degraded parafoveal previews during silent reading?

Vasilev, M. R., Slattery, T. J., Kirkby, J. A., & Angele, B. (2018). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(3), 371–386.

2017

Parafoveal preview effects from word N+1 and word N+2 during reading: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis.

Vasilev, M. R., & Angele, B. (2017). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(3), 666–689.

2013

Negative results in European psychology journals.

Vasilev, M. R. (2013). Europe's Journal of Psychology, 9(4), 717–730.