The present paper argues for the notion that when attention is spread across the visual field
in the first sweep of information through the brain visual selection is completely stimulus …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

Surprising as it may seem, research shows that we rarely see what we are looking at unless
our attention is directed to it. This phenomenon can have serious life-and-death …

Previous studies have demonstrated large individual differences in scanning strategy during
a dynamic visual search task (E. Becic, AF Kramer, & WR Boot, 2007; WR Boot, AF Kramer …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

A biologically motivated computational model of bottom-up visual selective attention was
used to examine the degree to which stimulus salience guides the allocation of attention …

Images of food constitute salient visual stimuli in the mind of the consumer. They are
capable of promoting both feelings of hunger and the desire for food. It should not, then …

Dual-process theories of the mind are ubiquitous in psychology. A central principle of these
theories is that behavior is determined by the interplay of automatic and controlled …

There is considerable controversy about whether salient singletons capture attention in a
bottom-up fashion, irrespective of top-down control settings. One possibility is that salient …

The salience map is a crucial concept for many theories of visual attention. On this map,
each object in the scene competes for selection–the more conspicuous the object, the …