information that is attended can be well processed, because perceptual capacity is limited
(Lavie, 2005). It has been suggested that selective attention upregulates task-relevant
stimulus processing (target facilitation) and downregulates task-irrelevant stimulus
processing (distractor inhibition; Baluch and Itti, 2011; Noonan et al., 2018). This attentional
regulation has been shown to be influenced by expectations. For instance, in visual search …