A fundamental question of attentional research concerns the perceptual consequences of
attention. Spatial attention can enhance stimuli within the focus of attention relative to stimuli …

Rarely noticed in daily life, attention may prefer the left side of space. Such attentional
biases offer key insights into functions of spatial attention and visual awareness because …

Healthy individuals display systematic inaccuracies when allocating attention to perceptual
space. Under many conditions, optimized spatial attention processing of the right …

Spatial selective attention is widely considered to be right hemisphere dominant. Previous
functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, however, have reported bilateral blood …

After right posterior brain damage, patients may ignore events occurring on their left, a
condition known as unilateral neglect. Although deficits at different levels of impairment may …

Selective attention has been hypothesized to reduce distractor interference at both
perceptual and postperceptual levels (Lavie, 2005), respectively, by focusing perceptual …

We developed and tested a powerful method for identifying and characterizing the effect of
attention on performance in visual tasks as due to signal enhancement, distractor exclusion …

Attention is asymmetrically distributed across the visual field, such that left side stimuli are
more salient, which causes a spatial bias known as pseudoneglect. Although auditory cues …

Individuals differ considerably in the degree to which they benefit from attention allocation.
Thus far, such individual differences were attributed to post-perceptual factors such as …

The biased competition account claims that competition between two stimuli increases when
they are close together compared with when they are far apart. The reason is that nearby …