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 …

Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

For over 25 years, researchers have debated whether physically salient stimuli capture
attention in an automatic manner, independent of the observer's goals, or whether the …

Researchers have long debated whether attentional capture is purely stimulus driven or
purely goal driven. In the current study, we tested a hybrid account, called the signal …

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 …

For more than 2 decades, researchers have debated the nature of cognitive control in the
guidance of visual attention. Stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically …

The cognitive system has the capacity to learn and make use of environmental regularities–
known as statistical learning (SL), including for the implicit guidance of attention. For …

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 …

Previous research has revealed that people can suppress salient stimuli that might
otherwise capture visual attention. The present study tests between 3 possible mechanisms …

Orienting of spatial attention is a family of phylogenetically old mechanisms developed to
select information for further processing. Information can be selected via top-down or …