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Kristina Cergol

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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-5440-0312ORCID · corroborated

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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 4 · 2 first-author · 4 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 4 · 2 first-author · 4 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Expecting the unexpected: Eye-tracking surprisal and entropy in L1 and L2
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This study investigates the effects of surprisal and contextual entropy on eye movements during naturalistic reading in L1 Croatian and L2 English. Linear mixed-effects models of eye-tracking data from 45 bilingual readers revealed a striking L1–L2 dissociation. In L1 Croatian, surprisal showed the classic positive effect, with less predictable words eliciting longer reading times, whereas in L2 English this effect was absent or reversed. Contextual entropy effects diverged more sharply: contextual uncertainty had no influence on L1 reading times, while higher entropy was associated with faster L2 reading. These findings suggest that L2 readers engage in less predictive processing than L1 readers, with the negative entropy effect reflecting a shift toward bottom-up processing in uncertain contexts.
Kristina Cergol, Eva Pavlinusic Vilus, Ana Matic Skoric, Marijan Palmovic
 ETRA1
2025 MultiplEYE: Creating a multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpus
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Deborah N. Jakobi, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Nora Hollenstein, Cui Ding, Ramune Kaspere, Ana Matic Skoric, Eva Pavlinusic Vilus, Stefan Frank, Marie-Luise Müller, Kristine M. Jensen de López, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne B. Søndergaard Knudsen, Yevgeni Berzak, Ella Lion, Irina A. Sekerina, Cengiz Acartürk, Mohd Faizan Ansari, Katarzyna Harezlak, Pawel Kasprowski, Ana Bautista, Lisa Beinborn, Anna Bondar, Antonia Boznou, Leah Bradshaw, Jana Mara Hofmann, Thyra Krosness, Not Battesta Soliva, Anila Çepani, Kristina Cergol, Ana Dosen, Marijan Palmovic, Adelina Çerpja, Dalí Chirino, Jan Chromý, Vera Demberg, Iza Skrjanec, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz, Inmaculada Fajardo, Mariola Giménez-Salvador, Xavier Mínguez-López, Maros Filip, Zigmunds Freibergs, Jessica Gomes, Andreia Janeiro, Paula Luegi, João Veríssimo, Sasho Gramatikov, Jana Hasenäcker, Alba Haveriku, Nelda Kote, Muhammad Mohsin Kamal, Hanna Kedzierska, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Sara Kosutar, Daniel Krakowczyk, Izabela Krejtz, Marta Lockiewicz, Kaidi Lõo, Jurgita Motiejuniene, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Johanne Sofie Krog Nedergård, Aysegül Özkan, Mikulás Preininger, Loredana Punga, David R. Reich, Chiara Tschirner, Spela Rot, Andreas Säuberli, Jordi Solé i Casals, Ekaterina Strati, Igor Svoboda, Evis Trandafili, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Lena A. Jäger
 ETRA29
2025 Parafoveal access to phonemic representations: Identity but not the order thereof
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The invisible boundary paradigm (gaze contingency) was used to investigate the availability and retrieval of phonological information when the letters of a word are retrieved by parafoveal vision. For this purpose, the target stimuli were masked by swapping or replacing the first two letters. The results show that fixation times (first fixation duration and dwell time) are shorter in the transposition condition than in the substitution condition, indicating that the identity of the phonemes is already retrieved parafoveally, regardless of their order in the word. Croatian was used for the experiment, a language with a transparent and fine-grained orthography with a grapheme-phoneme correspondence of almost 1:1, which allows the experimental exclusion of any confounding effects of orthography on phonology.
Marijan Palmovic, Kristina Cergol
 ETRA2
2024 The role of stress in silent reading
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A small parallel Croatian-English corpus was analyzed in order to study the role of implicit prosody in silent reading. Croatian and English are well suited for this purpose with English having a stress-timed prosody and Croatian being more of a syllable-timed language. This typological difference served as an experimental control in a natural reading study. The results presented in this preliminary paper indeed point to greater attention the readers placed onto the stressed syllables, as was reflected in the two analyzed eye-tracking measures, the dwell time and the fixations count.
Kristina Cergol, Marijan Palmovic
 ETRA1