Dr. Simona Buetti                                                                                

        

         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

         603 E. Daniel Street
         Champaign, IL 61820

 

         Office: Room 521, Psychology Building        

         Phone: 217-300-8156                                                                    

         Email: sbuetti{at}gmail.com, buetti{at}illinois.edu

 

 

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the UIUC; Supervisors: Profs. A. Lleras and W. Heller.


Research Interests:     

    

    - Influence of the subjective experience of control on cognitive processes and emotional regulation

    - Consequences of cognitive and emotional load on eye movements

    - Distractor-repetition effects in visual search (Distractor Preview Effect)

    - Influence of distorted proprioception on stimulus-response compatibility effects

    


Teaching: Perception and Sensory Processes (Psyc230)

 

Education
12.2009   Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Geneva (Dissertation: Click here)
10.2005   M.A. in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, University of Geneva

06.2004   B.A. in Psychology, University of Geneva

Publications

 

Submitted

  • Buetti, S., & Lleras, A. (submitted). Category-specific interference of working memory load on attentional biasing in parallel search.

  • Wan, X., & Buetti S. (submitted). Previewing Effect in Affective Categorization of Pictures.

In Press

  • Buetti, S., Tamietto, M., Hervais-Adelman, A., Kerzel, D., de Gelder, B., & Pegna, A. (in press). Dissociation between goal-directed and discrete response localization in a patient with bilateral cortical blindness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Click here

  • Lleras, A., Buetti, S., & Mordkoff, J. T. (in press). When do the effects of distractors provide a measure of distractibility? Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 59. Brian H. Ross (Ed.). Elsevier, Oxford, UK. Click here

2012

  • Buetti, S. & Lleras, A. (2012). Perceiving control over aversive and fearful events can alter how we experience those events: an investigation of time perception in spider-fearful individuals. Front. Psychology 3:337. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00337. Click here. Special issue: The Impact of Emotion on Cognition – Dissociating between Enhancing and Impairing Effects (Frontiers in Emotion Science Cross-Linked with Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience).

  • Adam, J. J., Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2012). Coordinated Flexibility: How Initial Gaze Position Modulates Eye-Hand Coordination and Reaching.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(4), 891-901. Click here

  • Kerzel, D., & Buetti, S. (2012). Approach and avoidance movements are unaffected by cognitive conflict: a comparison of Simon effect and stimulus-response compatibility. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(3), 456-461. doi: 10.3758/s13423-012-0246-6. Click here

  • Buetti, S., Juan, E., Rinck, M. & Kerzel, D. (2012). Affective states leak into movement execution: Automatic avoidance of threatening stimuli in fear of spider is visible in reach trajectories. Cognition & Emotion, DOI:10.1080/02699931.2011.640662.  Click here

2010

  • Kerzel, D., Gauch, A., & Buetti, S. (2010). Involuntary attention with uncertainty: Peripheral cues improve perception of masked letters, but may impair perception of low-contrast letters. Journal of Vision, 10(12):12, 1-13. Click here

  • Kerzel, D., Zarian, L., Gauch, A., & Buetti, S. (2010). Large effects of peripheral cues on appearance correlate with low precision. Journal of Vision, 10(11): 26, 1-14. Click here

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2010). Effects of saccades and response type on the Simon effect: If you look at the stimulus, the Simon effect may be gone. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2172-1289. Click here

2009

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2009). Conflicts during response selection affect response programming: Reactions towards the source of stimulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(3) 816-834.  Click here

2008

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2008). Time course of the Simon effect in pointing movements for horizontal, vertical, and acoustic stimuli: Evidence for a common mechanism underlying the Simon effect. Acta Psychologica, 129(3), 420-428. Click here

Media

  • News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (10/24/2012). A Sense of control eliminates emotional distortions of time. Click here.

Talks and Posters

  • Buetti, S., & Lleras, A. (2012, November). Examination of the boundaries of the buffering effect of control on emotion processing. 53th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Minneapolis, USA).

  • Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2012, November). Ocular capture by abrupt onset is severely reduced during mental arithmetic: Evidence against cognitive load theory. 53th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Minneapolis, USA).

  • Gomes de Castro, T., Buetti, S., & Barbosa Gomes, W. (2012, September). Consequences of tactile inputs in a spatial compatibility task: implication for body self-awareness. Reunião Anual do IBNeC (Floripa, Brazil).

  • Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (2012, May). Where do the eyes go when you think? Away from visually salient information. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

  • Buetti, S. (2012, April). Effects of the subjective experience of control on emotion regulation: an investigation in non-anxious and spider-fearful individuals. Presentation at the Visual Cognition and Human Performance Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

  • Buetti, S., Mereu, S., & Lleras, A. (2012, January). Impact of illusory control on time perception in normal and spider-fearful individuals. Second University of Illinois Postdoctoral Research Symposium (Illinois, USA).

  • Adam, J. J., Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2011, December). Coordinated Flexibility: Initial Gaze Position Mediates Eye-Hand Coordination. NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (The Netherlands).

  • Buetti, S., Mereu, S., & Lleras, A. (2011, November). Time Distortion of Emotionally Charged Images in Normal and Phobic Individuals. 52th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Washington, USA).

  • Buetti, S., Burra, N., Kerzel, D., de Gelder, B., & Pegna, A. (2011, November). Unilateral blindsight in complete cortical blindness. 52th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Washington, USA).

  • Buetti, S., Adam, J. J., & Kerzel, D. (2010, November). Fitts’s law depends on where you look. 51th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Missouri, USA).

  • Buetti, S., Juan, E., & Kerzel, D. (2010, August). Reaching in the presence of threatening stimuli: Evidence for automatic avoidance. Poster presented at the 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Lausanne (Switzerland). Abstract published in: Perception, 39 Suppl., 183 (2010).

  • Kerzel, D., Zarian, L., Gauch, A., & Buetti, S. (2010, August). Peripheral cues do not alter appearance: Bad performance leads to large cueing effects. Paper presented at the 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Lausanne (Switzerland). Abstract published in: Perception, 39 Suppl., 5 (2010).

  • Buetti, S., Hommel, B., Kerzel, D., & Kumada, T. (2010, May). Modulation of saccade latencies by hand action coding. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida.

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2010, April). Response programming in stimulus-response compatibility. PisaFest, Organised by Patrick Cavanagh, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, Centre Biomédical des Saints Pères, Paris, France

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2009, August). The role of attention in stimulus-response compatibility. Paper presented at the 11th congress of the Swiss Psychological Society (SPS), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

  • Kerzel, D., Juan, E., & Buetti, S. (2009, August). Influence of threatening stimuli on goal-directed hand movements. Poster presented at the 11th congress of the Swiss Psychological Society (SPS), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2009, May). Influence of conflict during response selection on response programming in the Simon Effect. Presentation at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University (Japan).

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2008, November). No Simon effect without redirection of attention to the response location (II). Poster presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago (Illinois, USA). Abstract published in: Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 126 (2008).

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2008, July). No Simon effect without redirection of attention to the response location. Poster presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Visual Search and Selective Attention (VSSA) / 2nd Munic Visual Search Symposium Swiss Edition, Fribourg (Switzerland).

  • Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2007, November). Trajectory deviations of pointing movements toward the irrelevant stimulus location in vertical and horizontal Simon tasks. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach (California, USA). Abstract published in: Abstracts of the Psychonomics Society, 12 Suppl., 56 (2007).
    Buetti, S., & Kerzel, D. (2006, August). Deviation of manual responses toward a to-be-ignored stimulus location: Distractor inhibition revisited. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), St-Petersbourg (Russia). Abstract published in: Perception, 35 Suppl., 151 (2006).

Unpublished works

  • Buetti, S. (2009, December). Evaluation of the Simon effect in response programming and under different eye movement instructions: An analysis of goal-directed and symbolic responses. Doctoral Thesis, University of Geneva.

  • Buetti, S., Hauert, C.-A., & Ptak, R. (2005, October). Influence de facteurs perceptifs et biomécaniques sur les mouvements de pointage de sujets sains et de patients héminégligents. Mémoire de diplôme non publié, Université de Genève.

  • Buetti, S., & de Preux L. (2004, June). Etude de l’impact de l’expertise visuelle dans l’effet dit de l’ « autre race » au niveau subordinal par le biais d’une tâche de classification avec amorçage. Mémoire de licence non publié, Université de Genève.