Publications

Xu, Z.J., Buetti, S., Xia, Y., Lleras, A. (under review) Skills and Attitudes Predict Performance in Difficult Search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysic.

Lleras, A., Buetti, S., & Xu, Z. J. (2022). Incorporating the properties of peripheral vision into theories of visual search. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00097-1 

Buetti, S., Xu, Z.J., Shao, Y., & Lleras, A. (submitted) Search speed in color space is a linear function of color distance: evidence against feature-boosting and prioritization theories of attention. Scientific Reports.

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. 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), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85605-8 

Lleras, A., Wang, Z., Ng, G. J. P., Ballew, K., Xu, J., & Buetti, S. (2020). A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01928-9  

Buetti, S., Xu, J., & Lleras, A. (2019). Predicting how color and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56238-9

Xu, Z. J., Lleras, A., Hummel, J. E., & Buetti, S. (2023, May). Does visual distinctiveness from an unexpected feature dimension facilitate search?. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5896-5896. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.9.5896. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, Z. J., Lleras, A., Hummel, J. E., & Buetti, S. (2022, May) Distractor heterogeneity as the cause of the linear separability effect. Journal of Vision, 22(14):4435-4435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.4435. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Tan, H. J. H., Buetti, S., Xu, Z. J., & Lleras, A. (2022). Testing feature boosting theories of visual attention in the color dimension using online experiments. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4333-4333. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.4333. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, Z. J., Ng, G., Lleras, A., Hummel, J. E., & Buetti, S. (2021, May) How does multidimensional complexity impact processing efficiency in visual search?. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2168-2168.doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2168. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2020 November). A new prediction-based approach to study visual search and attention. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 

Buetti, S., Shao, Y., Xu, J., & Lleras, A. (2020 May). Re-examining the linear separability effect in visual search for oriented targets. Journal of Vision, 20(11), 1244-1244. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1244. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2020 May). How texture and shape distinctiveness combine in the visual system to guide attention? Journal of Vision, 20(11), 1253-1253. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1253. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Xu, J., Ballew, K., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2019, May). Do people’s visual ability skill predict search efficiency under difficult search conditions?. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 233b-233b. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/19.10.233b. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. 

Ballew, K., Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2019, May). An individual differences investigation of the relationship between visuospatial working memory capacity and inefficient search. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 316-316. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/19.10.316. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. 

Yang, B., Xu, J., Zhang, F., Buetti, S. (2019, April) Does time perception of emotional events vary across Asian and Westerner participants? Poster presented at UIUC undergraduate research symposium. 

Xu, J., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2018, May). Is there a relationship between object recognition ability and visual search efficiency?. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 525-525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.10.525. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. 

Lleras, A., Xu, J., & Buetti, S. (2018, May). How do differences across visual features combine to determine visual search efficiency in parallel search?. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 282-282. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.10.282. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.