Education:
MA (hons), PhD (Glasgow)
Background :
I joined the University in January 2007 following an MA and PhD at the University of Glasgow.
Research:
I am the director of the Strathclyde Oculomotor Lab. My personal research interests are in cognitive neuroscience, in particular with regard to the dysfunctions in visual perception found in the syndrome of spatial neglect. My other research interests include neuropsychological aspects of eye movement control, perception and action, face processing, attentional and perceptual biases, and hemispheric laterality. Much of my research employs eyetracking technology, and I employ both an SR Research Eyelink 2 and an SR Research Eyelink 2000 in my lab.
Teaching responsibilities:
I am the first year psychology tutor (C8105 and C8106). I am the facilitator for the C8105 Problem Based Learning module. Additionally, I teach the Psychological disorders module in C8106. I also teach on the second year Introduction to Research Design and Analysis (C8203) and Cognition & Neuropsychology (C8201) courses.
At postgraduate level I teach on the Methods in Experimental Psychology module of the MRes in Research Methods in Psychology (C8915).
In 2011 I was nominated for a Strathclyde Teaching Excellence award, and subsequently shortlisted for the 'Overall Best Teacher' award. In 2012 I was again nominated for a Strathclyde Teaching Excellence award...thank you very much!
Postgraduate supervision:
I am currently supervising Mel McKendrick, Tedis Tafili, Jillian Hobson and Louise Williams' doctoral research (all fully funded), and Gillian Little and Katie Russell's Masters research.
In 2011 I was awarded the PsyPag Outstanding Doctoral Supervisor Award.
University responsibilities and memberships:
Within the University, I am a steering group member of Census (Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Strathclyde), and a steering group member of the Stroke Research at Strathclyde group.
Within the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences I am a KE representative.
Within the School I am a member of the BA Psychology academic affairs committee.
Affiliations and external responsibilities:
I am a chartered Psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an associate member of the Psychonomic Society.
I have been an invited peer reviewer for the following journals: Neuroscience Letters; Experimental Psychology; Addiction Research and Theory; Cortex; Developmental Psychology; Experimental Brain Research; Journal of Vision; Perception; Perception and Psychophysics; Attention, Perception and Psychophysics; Vision Research; Visual Cognition; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Psychological Reports.
Research Grants
Butler S, & Harvey M. (2006) Voluntary and involuntary processing in face perception, ESRC postdoctoral fellowship (ES/E007732/1), £62870.
Recent Publications
Hobson J, Bruce G, & Butler SH. (in press) A flicker change blindness task employing eye tracking reveals an association with levels of craving not consumption, Journal of Psychopharmacology.
Rossit S, McIntosh RD, Malhotra P, Butler SH, Muir K, & Harvey M. (in press) Attention in action: evidence from on-line corrections in left visual neglect. Neuropsychologia.
Rossit S, Szymanek L, Butler SH, & Harvey M. (2010) Memory-guided saccade processing in visual form agnosia (patient DF). Experimental Brain Research, 200, 109-116.
Butler SH, Rossit S, Gilchrist ID, Ludwig CJH, Olk B, Muir K, Reeves I, & Harvey M. (2009) Non-lateralised deficits in anti-saccade performance in patients with hemispatial neglect. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2488-2495.
Ludwig CJH, Butler SH, Rossit, S, Harvey M, & Gilchrist ID (2009) Modelling contralesional movement slowing after unilateral brain damage. Neuroscience Letters, 452, 1-4.
Butler SH, & Harvey M. (2008) Effects of ageing and exposure duration on perceptual biases in chimeric face processing. Cortex, 44, 665-672.
Smith AD, Gilchrist ID, Butler SH, Muir K, Bone I, Reeves I, & Harvey M. (2007) Non-lateralised deficits of drawing production in hemispatial neglect. Brain and Cognition, 64, 150-157.
Butler SH, & Harvey M. (2006) Perceptual biases in chimeric face processing : eye-movement patterns cannot explain it all. Brain Research, 1124, 96-99.
Butler SH, Gilchrist ID, Ludwig CJH, Muir K, & Harvey M. (2006) Oculomotor capture in a patient with a right Tempero-Parietal lesion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 990-999.
Smith AD, Gilchrist ID, Butler SH, & Harvey M. (2006) Around the clock surveillance: Simple graphic disturbance in patients with hemispatial neglect carries implications for the clock-drawing task. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 77, 407-409.
Butler SH & Harvey M. (2005) Does inversion abolish the left chimeric face processing advantage? Neuroreport, 16, 1991-1993.
Butler SH, Gilchrist ID, Burt DM, Perrett DI, Jones E, & Harvey M. (2005) Are the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing reflected in eye-movement patterns? Neuropsychologia, 43, 52-59.
Peer reviewed published conference abstracts
Butler SH., Szymanek L., Rossit S., & Harvey M. (2011) Inhibitory and vector inversion deficits during antisaccades in hemispatial neglect and visual form Agnosia (patient DF), in Vitu-Thibault, F., Castet, E., & Goffart, L. (Eds.) (2011). Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, 21 - 25 August 2011. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(3), 176.
Hobson J., Bruce G., & Butler SH. (2011) Attentional bias to alcohol related stimuli in high and low craving social drinkers: A flicker change blindness study, in Vitu-Thibault, F., Castet, E., & Goffart, L. (Eds.) (2011). Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, 21 - 25 August 2011. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(3), 163.
McKendrick M., Grealy M., & Butler SH. (2011) Socio-cognitive load and social anxiety: Processing efficiency and performance in an emotional antisaccade task, in Vitu-Thibault, F., Castet, E., & Goffart, L. (Eds.) (2011). Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, 21 - 25 August 2011. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(3), 87.
Tafili T., Butler SH., & Kelly S. (2011) Females capture but don’t hold each other’s faces: An eye movement study, in Vitu-Thibault, F., Castet, E., & Goffart, L. (Eds.) (2011). Abstracts of the 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille, 21 - 25 August 2011. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(3), 65.
McIntosh RD., Rossit S., Malhotra P., Butler S. & Harvey, M. (2010). The automatic pilot of the hand is unbalanced by visual neglect. Behavioural Neurology. 23, 249-251.
Rossit S., McIntosh R., Malhotra P., Butler S. & Harvey M. (2010) The automatic pilot for the hand in patients with hemispatial neglect. Journal of Vision, 10, 1079.
Harvey, M., McIntosh, R., Butler, S., Szymanek, L., & Rossit, S. (2009) On-line reaching to perturbed targets in visual form agnosia (patient DF). Journal of Vision, 9, 315.
Harvey, M., Szymanek L., Butler, S.H., and Rossit, S. (2009) Memory guided saccade processing in visual form agnosia. Perception, 38, 174.
Szymanek, L., Butler, S.H., Rossit, S., Olk, B., and Harvey, M. (2009) Response inhibition in hemispatial neglect. Perception, 38, 176.
Harvey, M., Rossit, S., Butler, S., Muir K. (2008) Impaired anti-pointing and anti-saccade performance in patients with hemispatial neglect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, SS, 65.
Harvey, M., Butler, S., Muir, K., Reeves, I. (2007) Dissociation between eye-movements and right perceptual biases in chimeric face processing in right hemisphere lesioned patients. Journal of Vision, 7(9), 654.
Rossit, S., McIntosh, R., Butler, S., & Harvey, M. (2007) Correct on-line adjustment but impaired response inhibition to perturbed targets in a patient with hemispatial neglect. Journal of Vision, 7(9), 567.
Harvey, M., Rossit, S., Butler, S. and Macintosh, R. (2007) ‘Automatic pilot and hemispatial neglect: fast online corrections to perturbed targets in two patients. Perception, 36, 119.
Butler, S.H., Ludwig, C.J.H., Gilchrist, I.D., Muir, K., Bone, I., Reeves, I., Duncan, G., & Harvey, M. (2006) Evidence from converging paradigms for posterior cortical involvement in response inhibition. Perception, 35, 235-236.
Rossit, S., Butler, S.H., & Harvey, M. (2006). Differential right-hemispheric aging: Evidence from a chimeric face processing task with younger and older adults. Perception, 35, 97.
Harvey, M., Butler, S. H., Ludwig, C.J.H., Muir, K., Bone, I., Duncan, G., D Gilchrist, I., & Reeves, I. (2006) Magnocellular impairment drives size distortion in hemispatial neglect. Perception, 35, 231.
Butler SH., Ludwig CJH., Gilchrist ID., Muir K. & Harvey M. (2005) Anti-saccades in patients with right parietal lesions. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 1, 81.
Butler, S., & Harvey, M. (2005). Scanning bias enhancement of the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, SS, 44-45.
Harvey M, Brennan D, Butler SH, Jentzsch I, Collins E, & Santosh C. (2005) Does the quantitative nature of a task differentiate between ventral and dorsal stream processing? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, SS, 85.
Butler, S., Ludwig CJH., Gilchrist ID., Harvey M. (2005) Parietal lobe involvement in response inhibition. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 65, 30.
Harvey M., & Butler S. (2005) Parietal lobe contributions to stimulus and goal driven search, evidence from brain-lesioned populaitons. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 65, 21.
Smith A, Gilchrist I, Butler S, Harvey M. (2005) Around the clock surveillance: simple graphic disturbance in neglect carries implications for the clock drawing task. Spatial Vision, 18, 510.
Butler SH, Ludwig CJH, Gilchrist ID, Harvey M. (2004) Oculomotor capture in a patient with a unilateral right temporo-parietal lesion. Perception, 33, 129.
Harvey, M., & Butler, S. (2004) Aging affects perceptual and eye-movement biases apparent in chimeric face processing. Perception, 33, 106.
Butler SH, Gilchrist ID, Burt DM, Perrett DI, Jones E, Harvey M. (2003) Eye-movement patterns reflect perceptual biases apparent in chimeric face processing. Perception, 32, 57.
Harvey M, Gilchrist ID, Butler SH, Ludwig CJH, Muir K. (2003) Impairments of goal-driven and stimulus-driven control in patients with right fronto-parietal lesions. Perception, 32, 37.
Peer reviewed non-published conference papers
Butler SH., Szymanek L., Rossit S. & Harvey M. (2010). Inhibition and offline processing in antisaccades. Presented at the 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, USA.
Szymanek L., Butler SH., Morand SM. & Harvey M. (2010) Visual processing of high-level features in facial stimuli. Presented at the Second Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, Amsterdam, Holland.
Szymanek L., Butler S., Rossit S. & Harvey M. (2010). Saccade processing in hemispatial neglect. Presented at the 1st Joint conference of the EPS and SEPEX, Granada, Spain.
Butler S., Szymanek L., Rossit S. & Harvey M. (2009). Intact inhibition but impaired endpoint accuracy in anti-saccades in visual form agnosia patient DF. Presented at the 15th European conference on eye movements, Southampton, UK.
Butler S., Rossit S., Olk B., Muir K. & Harvey, M. (2008). A comparison of anti-saccades and anti-pointing in right hemisphere lesioned patients with and without neglect: evidence for selective impairment in neglect. Presented at the First Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, Edinburgh, UK.
Harvey M., Butler S., Rossit S., & McIntosh R. (2008). Double Step Pointing in Patients with Hemispatial Neglect. Presented at the 26th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience, Bressanone, Italy.
Olk B., Rossit S., Butler S., & Harvey M. (2008). Comparing motor systems: Anti-pointing and anti-saccade performance in patients with spatial neglect. Presented at the Meeting of the German Neuropsychology Society, Germany.