Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

Irrelevant salient objects may capture our attention and interfere with visual search.
Recently, it was shown that distraction by a salient object is reduced when it is presented …

Although gamification has received considerable attention from both researchers and
practitioners, its influence on consumers remains ambiguous. This paper proposes that a …

Protecting working-memory content from distracting external sensory inputs and intervening
tasks is an ubiquitous demand in daily life. Here, we ask whether and how temporal …

Four experiments investigated the attentional white bear (AWB) effect, in which attention
increases for an upcoming distractor, and identified two key factors that interact to determine …

Visual search can be disrupted by irrelevant salient stimuli. Recently, Moher (Psychological
Science, 31 (1), 31–42,) found salient distractors to speed search when a target was absent …

Attention is limited in terms of both capacity (ie, amount of information attended) and
selectivity (ie, the degree to which non-attended information is nonetheless processed). One …

Trying to ignore an object can bias attention towards it–a phenomenon referred to as the
'attentional white bear'(AWB) effect. The mechanisms behind this effect remain unclear. On …

Although substantial evidence demonstrates that directing attention to specific items is
important for improving the performance of visual working memory (VWM), it is still not clear …

Visual distractions pose a significant risk to transportation safety, with laser attacks against
aircraft pilots being a common example. This study used a research-grade High Dynamic …