Psychology

Profile

Background

Anne has a BS (magna cum laude) in Mathematics and Psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an MA and PhD in Experimental Psychology from Johns Hopkins University. She held postdoctoral research positions at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and University of Wales, Bangor. She has been an assistant professor at both the University of Texas at Arlington and George Mason University.

Between earning her BS and earning her MA, Anne spent 6 years working at IBM Corporation, first as a programmer and then as a usability analyst.

Anne joined the department in 2005, is the IT representative for the department, and is a member of the human factors interest group as well as the Psychophysics research group. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Psychonomic Society, the Vision Sciences Society, and the British Neuropsychology Society.


Teaching Responsibilities

Anne is unit coordinator of Attention (Year 3), teaches part of Current Trends in Applied Psychology (Year 3, with-Psychology courses), and has given lectures in Introduction to Experimental Psychology (Year 1), Biological Psychology (Year 2), Clinical Neuropsychology (Year 3) and Applications of Psychology (Year 1). She supervises undergraduate theses on perception, attention, and eye-movements, as well as others outside her normal areas of interest. She is currently on the supervisory team for three Ph.D. students within the department and two outside the department and before coming to Portsmouth was on the supervisory team of other Masters and Ph.D. students.

Research Interests

Anne's main research interests are in the area of attention and object recognition. Most of her research focuses on visual search for objects or parts of objects, investigating how the mind works by measuring the speed and accuracy of responses under various display conditions. She has also investigated attention to tactile stimulation and how attention becomes disordered after some brain insults, particularly a condition known as hemispatial neglect.

Anne's applied research interests are in the area of human factors. Aside from the usability work she did when employed at IBM, she has conducted research on how people detect counterfeit currency, has been involved in research on detection of threat items in luggage, and is looking at how colour in GIS displays affects people’s search through those displays.


Publications

Hillstrom, A. P., Hope, L., & Nee, C. (2008). Applying psychological science to the CCTV review process: A review of cognitive and ergonomic literature. Report produced for the Home Office Scientific Development Branch, 1-70.

Wong, J. H., Peterson, M. S., & Hillstrom, A. P. (2007). Are changes in semantic and structural information sufficient for oculomotor capture? Journal of Vision, 7, Issue 10, Article 3, 1-10. http://journalofvision.org/7/12/3.

Hillstrom, A. P., & Chai, Y. C. (2006). Factors that guide or disrupt attentive visual processing. Computers in Human Behavior, 22, 648-656.
 
 Hillstrom, A. P., Husain, M., Shapiro, K. L., & Rorden, C. (2004). Spatiotemporal dynamics of Attention in Visual Neglect: A Case Study. Cortex, 40, 433-440.  
 
 Hillstrom, A. P., & Bernstein, I. H.  (2002). Counterfeit detection for new and old currency designs. Proceedings of SPIE: Optical Security and Counterfeit Deterrence Techniques IV.  pp 65-80.   
 
 Hillstrom, A. P., Shapiro, K. L., & Spence, C. (2002). Attentional Limitations in Processing Sequentially Presented Vibrotactile Targets. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1068-1082.  
 
 Shapiro, K., Hillstrom, A. P., & Husain, M. (2002). Control of visuotemporal attention by inferior parietal and superior temporal cortices. Current Biology, 12, 1320-1325.  
 
 Sheppard, D. M., Duncan, J., Shapiro, K. L., & Hillstrom, A. P. (2002). Objects and Events in the Attentional Blink. Psychological Science, 13, 410-415.  
 
 Soto-Faraco, S., Spence, C., Fairbank, K., Kingstone, A., Hillstrom, A. P., & Shapiro, K. (2002). A Crossmodal Attentional Blink between Vision and Touch. Psychological Bulletin & Review, 9, 731-738.  
 
 Shapiro, K., Hillstrom, A. P., & Husain, M. (2000). Selective attention to objects and time. In F. Boller, J. Grafman, & G. Rizzolatti (Eds.) Handbook of Neuropsychology, Second Edition,  Vol 1. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science.  
 
 Hillstrom, A. P. (2000). Repetition effects in visual search. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 800-817.  
 
 Atchley, P., Kramer, A., & Hillstrom, A. P. (2000). Contingent capture for onsets and offsets: Attentional set for object transients. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 594-606.  
 
 Hillstrom, A. P., & Logan, G. D. (1998). Decomposing visual search: Evidence of multiple item-specific skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1385-1398.  
 
 Hillstrom, A. P., & Logan, G. D. (1997). Process dissociation, cognitive architecture, and response time: Comments on Lindsay and Jacoby (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 1561-1578.  
 
 Hillstrom, A. P. & Yantis, S. (1994). Visual motion and attentional capture. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 399 411.   
 
 Yantis, S., & Hillstrom, A. P. (1994). Stimulus driven attentional capture: Evidence from equiluminant visual objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 95 107. 

Funding

Over the past twelve years, Anne’s research has been funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the US National Institute of Mental Health, a visiting researcher fellowship from the Leverhulme Foundation, a grant from the US National Science Foundation, and a contract from the US Department of the Treasury.  

Recent and Upcoming Invited Talks

Hilllstrom, A. P. (Spring, 2008). Title tbd. Department of Psychology, Nottingham-Trent University.

Hillstrom, A. P. (August, 2007). Repetition Effects in Attention. Symposium at the annual meeting of the European Conference for Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy.  

Hillstrom, A. P. (April, 2005). Attention to Objects that Change Identity. Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.

Hillstrom, A. P. (June, 2003). Attention to Impossible Objects. Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham.

Hillstrom, A. P. (November, 2002). Search for Threats in Airports; Search for Objects in the Lab. Frontiers of Science talk at University of Texas at Arlingon.

Hillstrom, A. P. (September, 2002). The Representation of Attended Objects. Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX.

Hillstrom, A. P. (May, 2001). Research Ethics. To the 2001 McNair scholars at University of Texas at Arlington.

Hillstrom, A. P. (April, 2001). The Object of My Attention. Department of Psychology. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Hillstrom, A. P. (September, 1995). Process Dissociation of the Stroop Task: Taking Time out of Response Time. Department of Psychology. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

Hillstrom, A. P. (October, 1995). Careers for Women in Mathematics. At the centennial celebration for the mathematics department. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.