Senior Lecturer

Research interests

• The cognitive bases of serial order in behaviour from a comparative, developmental and neuropsychological perspective.

• Search strategies and serial-spatial memory.

• Perceptual grouping and segmentation in human and non-human primates.

• Frontal lobe and executive functions

Laboratory

Visual spatial cognition laboratory

Publications since 2008

De Lillo, C. Palumbo, M., Spinozzi, G. & Giustino, G. (2012). Effects of pattern redundancy and hierarchical grouping on global-local visual processing in monkeys (Cebus apella) and humans (Homo sapiens). Behavioural Brain Research, 226: 445-455. PDF

Fagot, J. & De Lillo, C. (2011). A comparative study of working memory: immediate serial recall in baboons (Papio papio) and humans. Neuropsychologia. 49: 3870-3880. PDF

De Lillo, C. Spinozzi, G., Palumbo, M. & Giustino, G. (2011). Attention allocation modulates the processing of hierarchical visual patterns: a comparative analysis of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 37(3): 341-352. PDF

Ashton, R & De Lillo, C. (2011). Association, inhibition and object permanence in dogs' (Canis familiaris) spatial search. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 125(2): 194-206. PDF

De Lillo, C. & Lesk, V (2010). Spatial clustering and hierarchical coding in immediate serial recall. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 22(2):216-246 PDF

Spinozzi, G., De Lillo, C. Truppa, V., Castorina, G. (2009). The Relative Use of Proximity, Shape Similarity and Orientation as Visual Perceptual Grouping Cues in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and Humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology.123(1): 56-68. PDF

Full list of publications

Publications

Grants

Spatial Working Memory for clustered sites in a Virtual Reality based search task. 2011

Spatial and motor cognition in virtual reality, computer generated and other realistic environments. Capital Investment Fund (CIF). 2008-2011.

Determinants of global and local visual processing advantage in humans and capuchins (Leverhulme Trust), 2008-2011

Executive functions and hierarchical organisation in short-term memory for spatial locations. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2005-06.

Contrasting hierarchical coding and movement length as determinants of recall improvement in serial spatial memory. (Nuffield Foundation). 2006

Schizotypy and the encoding of structure in spatial working memory: are individual differences mediated by executive functions and perceptual grouping skills? (Wellcome Trust). 2006.

Executive functions and cross-modality binding in serial temporary memory. (Nuffield Foundation). 2005

Spatial Grouping, executive functions and data-reduction in spatial working memory. (Experimental Psychology Society). 2004

Executive functions and hierarchical organisation in serial-spatial working memory: a study based on structured versions of the Corsi task. (Nuffield Foundation). 2004.

Teaching

P1012-14 Approaches to Psychology

PS2011/2016 Cognitive Psychology
PS3002 Brain and Cognition
PS0319 Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology

PS3003 Psychology disseration: possible topics and research areas