Our visual system consciously processes only a subset of the incoming information.
Selective attention allows us to prioritize relevant inputs, and can be allocated to features …

Priority map theory is a leading framework for understanding how various aspects of
stimulus displays and task demands guide visual attention. Per this theory, the visual system …

Attention filters sensory inputs to enhance task-relevant information. It is guided by an"
attentional template" that represents the stimulus features that are currently relevant. To …

People excel at learning the statistics of their environments. For instance, people rapidly
learn to pay attention to locations that frequently contain visual search targets. Here, we …

Visual search is supported by an internal representation of the target, the attentional
template. However, which features are diagnostic of target presence critically depends on …

Performance in visual search tasks is frequently summarised by “search slopes”-the
additional cost in reaction time for each additional distractor. While search tasks with a …

Visually searching for a frequently changing target is assumed to be guided by flexible
working memory representations of specific features necessary to discriminate targets from …

People tend to employ suboptimal attention control strategies during visual search. Here we
question why people are suboptimal, specifically investigating how knowledge of the optimal …

Aging has been associated with significant declines in the speed and accuracy of visual
search. These effects have been attributed partly to low-level (bottom–up) factors including …

Biological systems must allocate limited perceptual resources to relevant elements in their
environment. This often requires simultaneous selection of multiple elements from the same …