Alejandro Lleras
Professor of Psychology, Charles Eriksen Professorial Scholar of Psychology
Contact Information:
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Address: 523 Psychology Bldg.
603 E. Daniel Street
M/C 716
Champaign, IL 61820 - Telephone: (217) 265-6709
- alleras@illinois.edu
Specializations
- Attention, Vision, Awareness
Research Description
My work is focused on understanding attention, both how it works and how it fails,mostly in the visual domain. I have studied issues such as temporal attention, why we tend to get distracted when we concentrate over long periods of time, how we tune out the world when we are trying to concentrate, and how it is that we find objects in a scene.
Education
- Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, 2002
Distinctions / Awards
- CAREER award recipient from National Science Foundation
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Courses
- Computers in Visual Cognition. Research lab course for graduate students
- Engineering Psychology and Human Performance. Lecture course for undergraduate students.
- Perception and Sensory Processes. Lecture course for undergraduate students.
- Perception. Graduate Level Course
Recent Publications
Lleras, A., & Enns, J. T. (2004). Negative Compatibility or Object Updating? A Cautionary Tale of Mask-Dependent Priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 475-493.
Lleras, A., & Moore, C. M. (2006). What you see is what you get: Functional equivalence of a perceptually filled-in surface and a physically presented stimulus. Psychological Science, 17, 876-881.
Lleras, A., Kawahara, J., Wan, X. I., Ariga, A. (2008). Inter-trial inhibition of focused attention in pop-out search. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 114-131.
Lleras, A., Rensink, R. A., & Enns, J. T. (2005). Rapid resumption of interrupted visual search: new insights on the interaction between vision and memory. Psychological Science, 16, 684-688.
Thomas, L. E., Lleras, A. (2007). Moving eyes and moving thought: on the spatial compatibility between eye movements and cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 663-668.
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Facilities Information
Building Remodeling Projects
Click on the title to check out these pictures from the classroom remodeling project in the basement. A second project to replace the elevators will begin in September. Beginning with the freight elevator, each elevator will be out of service for three months. To get quickly from one floor to another, and improve your fitness, we will encourage the use of the stairs. The repainting of the northeast stairwell has been completed, and the painter is starting on the southwest stairwell. The repainted stairwell looks astonishingly better. Be sure to thank Rick, the painter, who has been working hard on the repainting for many weeks.