Publications

Preprints

Olkoniemi, H., & Pexman, P. M. (2024). Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of irony development. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xeg5j

Kaakinen, J. K., Olkoniemi, H., & De Maeyer, S. (2024). Finite mixture modeling of eye-tracking data: An example of L2 metaphor reading. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/z5mhd

Olkoniemi, H., Häikiö, T., Merinen, M., Manninen, J., Laine, M., & Pexman, P. M. (2023). Learning irony in school: Effects of metapragmatic training. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hjzb3

In Press / Online First

Coming soon…

2024

Olkoniemi, H., & Filik, R. (2024). Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research. Discourse Processes, 61, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2312049

Olkoniemi, H., Mézière, D. C., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2024). Comprehending irony in text: Evidence from scanpaths. Discourse Processes, 61, 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2266964 |Preprint|

Loukola, V., Tuominen, J., Kirsilä, S., Kyyhkynen, A., Lahdenperä, M., Parkkali, L., Ranta, E., Toivola, E., Vanhanen, S., Välimaa, K., Olkoniemi, H., Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2024). Viral simulations in dreams: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams. Consciousness and Cognition, 119, 103651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103651

Liversedge, S.P., Olkoniemi, H., Zang, C., Li, X., Yan, G., Bai, X., & Hyönä, J. (2024). Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power. Cognition, 242, 105636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105636

2023

Bergman, M., MacGregor, O., Olkoniemi, H., Redgård, R., Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2023). Dangerous waters: The impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on survivor dream content. Dreaming, 33, 369–387. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000254

Tuominen, J., Kaittila, A., Halme, V., Hietamäki, J., Hakovirta, M., & Olkoniemi, H. (2023). Changes in frequency and form of domestic violence in calls to violence helpline during COVID-19 in Finland. Psychology of Violence, 13, 447–455. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000474 |Preprint]

Olkoniemi, H., Halonen, S., Pexman, P. M., & Häikiö, T. (2023). Children’s processing of written irony: An eye movement study. Cognition, 238, 105508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105508 |Preprint]

Olkoniemi, H., Hurme, M., & Railo, H. (2023). Neurologically healthy humans’ ability to make saccades toward unseen targets. Neuroscience, 513, 111–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.01.014 |Preprint|

2022

Olkoniemi, H., Bertram, R, & Kaakinen, J. K. (2022). Knowledge is a river and education is like a stairway: An eye movement study on how L2 speakers process metaphors and similes. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 307–320. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000869 |Preprint|

Tuominen, J., Olkoniemi, H., Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2022). ’No man is an Island’: Effects of social seclusion on social dream content and REM sleep. British Journal of Psychology, 113, 84–104. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12515

2021

Olkoniemi, H., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2021). Processing of irony in text: A systematic review of eye-tracking studies. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 75, 99–106. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000216 |Preprint|

2020

Hyönä, J., Pollatsek, A., Koski, M., & Olkoniemi, H. (2020). An eye-tracking study of reading long and short novel and lexicalized compound words. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 13, 2. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.13.4.3

Bergman, M., MacGregor, O., Olkoniemi, H., Owczarski, W., Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2020). The Holocaust as a lifelong nightmare: Posttraumatic symptoms and dream content in Polish Auschwitz survivors 30 years after WWII. The American Journal of Psychology, 133, 143–166, https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.133.2.0143

2019

Olkoniemi, H., Strömberg, V., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2019). The ability to recognise emotions predicts the time-course of sarcasm processing: Evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 1212-1223. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818807864

Olkoniemi, H., Johander, E., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2019). The role of look-backs in the processing of written sarcasm. Memory & Cognition, 47, 87-105. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0852-2

2018

Railo, H., Olkoniemi, H., Eeronheimo, E., Pääkkönen, O., Joutsa, J., & Kaasinen, V. (2018). Dopamine and eye movement control in Parkinson’s disease: Deficits in corollary discharge signals? PeerJ, 6, e6038. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6038

2016

Olkoniemi, H., Ranta, H., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2016). Individual differences in the processing of written sarcasm and metaphor: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 433-450. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000176

2014

Kaakinen, J.K., Olkoniemi, H., Kinnari, T., & Hyönä, J. (2014). Processing of written irony: An eye movement study. Discourse Processes, 51, 287-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2013.870024

Thesis

Olkoniemi, H. (2019). Individual differences in processing written irony. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B, 469. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-7541-9

Presentations

Invited talks and Keynotes

”Irony comprehension: A developmental and individual differences approach”, Psychology and Sports Science Research Seminar, Bangor University, UK, 23.8.2024.

”Irony comprehension in children and adults”, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada, 20.6.2023.

”Processing and comprehending of irony in children and adults”, Centre for Comparative Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada, 24.5.2023.

”Children’s processing of written irony”, North-West Visual Cognition Workshop, University of Central Lancashire, UK, 5.7.2022

”Irony comprehension across the lifespan”, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK, 21.6.2022

”Irony comprehension across the lifespan”, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, UK, 9.6.2022

”Children’s processing of written irony”, Language Research Group, University of Leicester, UK, 8.6.2022

“Individual differences in the processing of verbal irony”, Centre for Vision and Cognition, University of Southampton, UK, 25.11.2015

Conference presentations

Olkoniemi, H., Häikiö, T., Laine, M., & Pexman, P. M. (2024). Role of empathy in children’s processing and comprehension of written irony. 22^nd European Conference on Eye Movements. Maynooth, Ireland.

Hyönä, J., Liversedge, S.P., Olkoniemi, H., Zang, C., Li, X., Yan, G., Bai, X., & Zhang, Z. (2024). Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power. 22^nd European Conference on Eye Movements. Maynooth, Ireland.

Loukola, V., Tuominen, J., Kirsilä, S., Kyyhkynen, A., Lahdenperä, M., Parkkali, L., Ranta, E., Toivola, E., Vanhanen, S., Välimaa, K., Olkoniemi, H., Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2024). The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on threatening dream content in a Finnish sample of diary dreams. Annual Dream Conference IASD. Kerkrade, Netherlands.

Olkoniemi, H. (2024). Muutokset ironian ymmärtämisessä elinkaaren aikana. Talk presented at Huumori, Ironia ja Valta -kollokvio. Helsinki, Suomi.

Olkoniemi, H., Häikiö, T., Laine, M., & Pexman, P. M. (2023). Role of metapragmatic knowledge in children’s written irony comprehension. Talk presented at the 9^th China International Conference on Eye Movements. Tianjin, China.

Mézière, D. C., Olkoniemi, H., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2023). Comprehending irony in text: Evidence from scanpaths. Talk presented at the 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Oslo, Norway.

Olkoniemi, H., Halonen, S., Pexman, P. M., & Häikiö, T. (2022). Children’s processing of written irony: An eye-tracking study. Talk presented at the 9^th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Pavia, Italy.

Olkoniemi, H., Halonen, S., Pexman, P. M., & Häikiö, T. (2022). Children’s processing of written irony: An eye-tracking study. Talk presented at the 21^st European Conference on Eye Movements. Leicester, UK.

Tuominen, J., Hietamäki, J., Kaittila, A., Halme, V., Hakovirta, M., & Olkoniemi, H. (2021). Changes in intimate partner violence during COVID-19 in calls to violence hotline in Finland. Talk presented at the IPVI2021: Interpersonal Violence Interventions – Social and Cultural Perspectives. Jyväskylä, Finland.

Olkoniemi, H., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2021). Processing of irony in text: A systematic review of eye-tracking studies. Poster presented at the 62^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Conference.

Olkoniemi, H., Bertram, R., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2020). Knowledge is a river and education is like a stairway: An eye movement study on how L2 speakers process metaphors and similes. Poster presented at the 61^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Conference.

Olkoniemi, H., Johander, E., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2019). The role of look-backs in processing written sarcasm. Talk presented at the 60^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Montreal, Canada.

Olkoniemi, H., Johander, E., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2019). The role of look-backs in processing written sarcasm. Talk presented at the 20^th European Conference on Eye Movements. Alicante, Spain.

Olkoniemi, H. (2018). Individual differences in the processing of written irony. Talk presented at the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Brighton, UK.

Tuominen, J., Kallio, S., Olkoniemi, H., Kaasinen, V., & Railo, H. (2017). Changes in neural activity and experience following hypnotic suggestion: A TMS-EEG study on negative hallucinations. Poster presented at the 21^st Annual Meeting of The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Beijing, China.

Olkoniemi, H., Johander, E., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2016). Are look-backs important in the processing of written sarcasm? Talk presented at the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Kassel, Germany.

Olkoniemi, H., Johander, E., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2016). Are look-backs important in the processing of written sarcasm? Poster presented at the Scandinavian Workshop on Applied Eye Tracking. Turku, Finland.

Olkoniemi, H., Strömberg, V., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2015). The role of working memory and emphasizing skills in the processing of written sarcasm. Talk presented at the 18^th European Conference on Eye Movements. Wien, Austria.

Olkoniemi, H., Strömberg, V., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2015). The processing of white lies: evidence from eye-movements. Talk presented at the 25^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Minneapolis, USA.

Olkoniemi, H., Ranta, H., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2014).Yksilölliset erot sarkasmin ja metaforien prosessoinnissa. Poster presented at the Psykologia 2014. Joensuu, Finland. [Won the best poster award]

Olkoniemi, H., & Kaakinen, J.K. (2014).The role of context and empathizing skills in the processing of written sarcasm: An eye-movement study. Poster presented at the 24^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago, USA.

Olkoniemi, H., Kaakinen, J.K., Ranta, H., & Hyönä, J. (2013). Individual differences in the on-line processing of written sarcasm and metaphor. Talk presented at the 17^th European Conference on Eye Movements. Lund, Sweden.

Olkoniemi, H., Kaakinen, J.K., Ranta, H., Hyönä, J. (2013). Individual differences in the on-line processing of written sarcasm and metaphor. Poster presented at the 23^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Valencia, Spain.

Olkoniemi, H., Kaakinen, J.K., Kinnari, T., & Hyönä J. (2010). Individual differences in the on-line processing of written irony. Talk presented at the 20^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago, USA.