… , we use mechanisms of visual attention. A key question is how visual … attention to locations
containing the color blue. Indeed, there has been an abundance of evidence that attention is …

… perception of the visual world, we rely partly on two key mechanisms: attention and perceptual
… indicated the same location as the precue if the precue was peripheral (precue 100% valid…

… attention capture recruits different attentional mechanisms … nonpredictive precues found
no enhancement of perception; … of whether the precue location predicted target location was …

… , previous experience biases attention toward likely target locations, expediting visual … feature
search and in search following a valid precue is small compared with the effect observed in …

… By precueing observers to one of two fixed time points, here we manipulate … attention on
discriminability vary with spatial location. We assessed the effect of voluntary temporal attention …

… perceptual template model (PTM), the attention mechanisms … We examine whether any of
the three attention mechanisms … size using central precues to indicate possible target locations, …

… Attention, the mechanism by which information is selected for … on how paying attention affects
perceptual processing [1,2], it … a voluntary visual attention task at one location, behavioral …

… locations, each of which could occur in one of four possible orientations (Figure 1a). Observers
were either precued … cuing) or near the target location (exogenous or peripheral cuing) to …

… × 3 factorial model space, we assessed the influence of prestimulus attention by comparing
… that did not shift their attention as instructed by the precue. Specifically, observers were …

… response cue pointed to a precued location. On another third … We refer to these weights as
perceptual sensitivity; the higher … Here we did not aim to distinguish these two mechanisms …