The ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli in the presence of potentially
interfering distractors is crucial for any coherent cognitive function. However, simply …

Selective attention allows us to ignore what is task-irrelevant and focus on what is task-
relevant. The cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie this process are key topics of …

This paper aims to foster discussion of the means by which bilinguals control their two
language systems. It proposes an inhibitory control (IC) model that embodies the principle …

A load theory of attention in which distractor rejection depends on the level and type of load
involved in current processing was tested. A series of experiments demonstrates that …

We used event-related fMRI to assess whether brain responses to fearful versus neutral
faces are modulated by spatial attention. Subjects performed a demanding matching task for …

The hypothesis that working memory is crucial for reducing distraction by maintaining the
prioritization of relevant information was tested in neuroimaging and psychological …

What is the relationship between attention and conscious awareness? Awareness
sometimes appears to be restricted to the contents of focused attention, yet at other times …

According to DE Broadbent's (1958) selective filter theory, people do not process
unattended stimuli beyond the analysis of basic physical properties. This theory was later …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

The ability to ignore irrelevant peripheral distractors was assessed as a function of the
efficiency in visual search for a target at the center of a display Efficient target search, among …