DEBORAH A. CRONIN, PHD
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Chick Retina. Andy Fischer, 2008.

Research Interests

I am interested in the mechanisms guiding visual attention. Specifically, I'm interested in the influences on attention allocation, including our tasks or goals, memory content, social environment, non-visual sensory experiences, actions, and affect. I'm also interested in how components of a scene can influence the way we move our attention through it and in how moving our attention can change perception. I have experience conducting both behavioral and eye-tracking studies. 

Current Research Topics:
 - Perceptual stability across eye movements 
 - Semantic guidance in scenes
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 - Attention during visual search

Collaborations with Industry:
From March 2016-December 2017 I collected eye-tracking data for Sandia National Labs in conjunction with the University of Illinois' Simulator Lab with the goal of modeling the movement of overt attention through various modes of data visualization. 

In the summer of 2014, I conducted a research project for McDonald's Corporation to ensure the best possible methods were being used to maintain food quality across changes in their supply chain. 

Click here to download my CV.

Publications

Cronin, D.A., Buetti, S., & Lleras, A. (in preparation). Parallel mechanisms guide attention during search: Evidence from eye-movements. 

Cronin, D.A., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (in preparation). Target-similarity of distractors in a heterogeneous search array is predictive of reaction time.

Madison, A., & Cronin, D.A., (in preparation). Is visual working memory capacity correlated with search performance?

Divis, K.M., Matzen, L.E., Cronin, D.A., Hass, M.J. (in preparation). Control of eye movements in data visualizations.

Cronin, D.A., & Irwin, D.E. (2018). Visual working memory supports perceptual stability across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000567

Lleras, A., Cronin, D.A., Madison, A.M., Wang, Z., & Lleras, A. (2017). Oh, the number of things you will process (in parallel)! Commentary on Hulleman & Olivers (2017). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E146. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16000169
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Buetti, S., Cronin, D.A., Madison, A.M., Wang, Z., & Lleras, A. (2016). Towards a better understanding of parallel processing in human vision: Evidence for exhaustive analysis of visual information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145 (6), 672-707. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000163

Cronin, D.A., & Brockmole, J.R. (2016). Evaluating the influence of a fixated object's spatio-temporal properties on gaze control. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78 (4), 996-1003. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1072-0

Brockmole, J.R., Davoli, C.C., & Cronin, D.A. (2012). The visual world in sight and mind: How attention and memory interact to determine visual experience. In B.Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol.57.

Posters and Talks

Cronin, D.A. & Irwin, D.E. (Nov 2018). Effects of Object Correspondence and Visual Transients on Saccade Target Displacement Detection. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, Louisiana. [View Poster]

Cronin, D.A. & Irwin, D.E. (Nov 2017). Visual working memory load disrupts perceptual stability across saccadic eye movements. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, CA. [View Poster]

Cronin, D.A., Lleras, A., & Buetti, S. (May 2015). The Information Theory of Vision: Evidence from eye-tracking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida.
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Cronin, D.A., Buetti, S., & Lleras, A. (May 2014). The role of lure heterogeneity in logarithmic visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Cronin, D.A., & Brockmole, J.R. (Nov 2012). Reference frames, motion and animacy: Influences on gaze control. Paper presented at the 20th annual meeting of the society for Object Perception, Attention and Memory (OPAM). Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Skills and Methods

Programming
Matlab with Psychophysics Toolbox
SR Research Experiment Builder

Data Collection Methods
Eye-Tracking (EyeLink 2, EyeLink 1000, EyeLink 1000 Plus; SmartEye Pro)
Behavioral Methods

Data Analysis
SPSS
R
SR Research Data Viewer
Excel
​Matlab
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