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 …

Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

Goal-directed attentional control supports efficient visual search by prioritizing relevant
stimuli in the environment. Previous research has shown that goal-directed control can be …

Top‐down attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process goal‐relevant
aspects of a scene while ignoring irrelevant aspects. A large body of research has …

Selective attention improves sensory processing of relevant information but can also impact
the quality of perception. For example, attention increases visual discrimination performance …

Subjective similarity holds a prominent place in many psychological theories, influencing
diverse cognitive processes ranging from attention and categorization to memory and …

The present meta-analyses investigated the widely used contingent-capture protocol.
Contingent-capture theory postulates that only top-down matching stimuli capture attention …

What mechanisms allow us to ignore salient yet irrelevant visual information has been a
matter of intense debate. According to the contingent-capture hypothesis, such information is …

People often look for objects in their immediate environment, a behaviour known as visual
search. Most of the visual signals used during search come from peripheral vision, outside …