The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract regularities from the environment over time.
Sensitivity to environmental statistics is a pervasive property of the brain that operates over …

Decades of cognitive neuroscience research has shown that where we look is intimately
connected to what we remember. In this article, we review findings from human and …

Visual search improves when a target is encountered repeatedly at a fixed location within a
stable distractor arrangement (spatial context), compared to non-repeated contexts. The …

Prior knowledge and long‐term memory can guide our attention to facilitate search for and
detection of subtle targets embedded in a complex scene. A number of neuropsychological …

Learning never stops. As we navigate life, we continuously acquire and update knowledge
to optimize memory-guided action, with a gradual shift from the former to the latter as we …

Environmental context learned without awareness can facilitate visual processing of goal-
relevant information. According to one view, the benefit of implicitly learned context relies on …

Although hippocampus unequivocally supports explicit/declarative memory, fewer findings
have demonstrated its role in implicit expressions of memory. We tested for hippocampal …

Visual search through previously encountered contexts typically produces reduced reaction
times compared with search through novel contexts. This contextual cueing benefit is well …