What to expect where and when: How statistical learning drives visual selection

J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts, D van Moorselaar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

[HTML][HTML] Serial dependence in visual perception: A review

D Pascucci, ÖD Tanrikulu, A Ozkirli… - Journal of …, 2023 - iovs.arvojournals.org
How does the visual system represent continuity in the constantly changing visual input? A
recent proposal is that vision is serially dependent: Stimuli seen a moment ago influence …

Inhibition in selective attention

D Van Moorselaar, HA Slagter - … of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on
our ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor …

Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

M Wöstmann, VS Störmer, J Obleser… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction

HR Liesefeld, D Lamy, N Gaspelin, JJ Geng… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2024 - Springer
Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

Passive exposure attenuates distraction during visual search.

BY Won, JJ Geng - Journal of experimental psychology: general, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Distractions are ubiquitous in our sensory environments. How do we keep them from
capturing attention? Existing research has focused primarily on mechanisms of strategic …

History modulates early sensory processing of salient distractors

KCS Adam, JT Serences - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
To find important objects, we must focus on our goals, ignore distractions, and take our
changing environment into account. This is formalized in models of visual search whereby …

[HTML][HTML] Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference

D Gresch, SEP Boettcher, F Van Ede, AC Nobre - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Protecting working-memory content from distracting external sensory inputs and intervening
tasks is an ubiquitous demand in daily life. Here, we ask whether and how temporal …

Negative and positive templates: Two forms of cued attentional control

NB Carlisle - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 - Springer
Our ability to control our attention to focus on goal-relevant information is critical for
functioning in daily life. In addition to the typical attentional control driven by target …

Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases

M Rafiei, S Hansmann-Roth, D Whitney… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2021 - Springer
Humans have remarkable abilities to construct a stable visual world from continuously
changing input. There is increasing evidence that momentary visual input blends with …