Research Interests
Visual attention, emotion-cognition interactions, response interference effects, and individual differences.
Research Description
In my work on visual attention I use a variety of methodologies and approaches: behavioral psychophysics, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
For more information on my ongoing projects visit: https://publish.illinois.edu/visionlab/projects/
Education
- PhD. from the University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Awards and Honors
Awarded a 2019 research grant from the National Science Foundation (Behavioral and Cognitive Science Division, award number: 1921735). Role: PI. Title: CompCog: Template Contrast and Saliency (TCAS) Toolbox: a tool to visualize parallel attentive evaluation of scenes.
Awarded a 2016 research grant from the BRIDGE Birmingham-Illinois partnership initiative.
Awarded the 2014 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, Brain & Behavior research Foundation
Courses Taught
Psyc230 Perception and Sensory Processes (face-to-face: Fall and Spring; Online: Winter and Summer)
Psyc396 The Attentive Mind
Global Eduction and Training (GET) in the context of the Engeneering Research Summer School
Recent Publications
Buetti, S., Xue, F., Liu, Q., Hur, J., Ng, G. J. P., & Heller, W. (2021). Perceived control in the lab and in daily life impact emotion-induced temporal distortions. Timing and Time Perception, 9(1), 88-122. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10018
Lively, Z., Ng, G. J. P., Buetti, S., & Lleras, A. (2021). Irrelevant features of distractors in intervening visual search tasks cause active visual working memory interference – the more difficult the search task, the more interference it causes. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83(6), 2410-2429. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02318-w
Xu, Z. J., Lleras, A., Shao, Y., & Buetti, S. (2021). Distractor–Distractor Interactions in Visual Search for Oriented Targets Explain the Increased Difficulty Observed in Nonlinearly Separable Conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(9), 1274-1297. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000941
Xu, Z. J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2021). Predicting how surface texture and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention. Scientific reports, 11(1), [6170]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85605-8
Dolcos, F., Bogdan, P. C., O'Brien, M., Iordan, A. D., Madison, A., Lleras Buetti, S., Lleras, A., & Dolcos, S. (2020). The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation: An eye-tracking investigation. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000895
