The present study tested the hypothesis that facilitated processing of threatening faces
depends on working memory load. Participants judged the gender of angry versus happy …

Functional imaging research has identified frontoparietal attention networks involved in
visual search, with mixed evidence regarding whether different networks are engaged when …

It has long been known that the control of attention in visual search depends both on
voluntary, top-down deployment according to context-specific goals, and on involuntary …

Mechanisms of attention are required to prioritise goal-relevant sensory events under
conditions of stimulus competition. According to the perceptual load model of attention, the …

The rise of the human information-processing approach in psychology is closely coupled
with the growth of the fields of cognitive psychology, human factors, and human engineering …

Visual features of fixated but irrelevant items contribute to both how long overt attention
dwells at a location and to decisions regarding the location of subsequent attention shifts …

Do word frequency and case mixing affect different processing stages in visual word
recognition? Some studies of online reading have suggested that word frequency affects an …

Behavioral momentum theory provides a framework for understanding how conditions of
reinforcement influence instrumental response strength under conditions of disruption (ie …

It is well established that repetition of the same target color across consecutive trials
enhances search efficiency for pop-out targets; this phenomenon is known as Priming of …

When the eye gaze of a face is congruent with the direction of an upcoming target, saccadic
eye movements of the observer towards that target are generated more quickly, in …