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 …

There has been a long-lasting debate about whether salient stimuli, such as uniquely
colored objects, have the ability to automatically distract us. To resolve this debate, it has …

There has been a long-standing debate concerning whether we are able to resist attention
capture by salient distractors. The so-called “signal suppression hypothesis” of Gaspelin and …

The present study investigated how attentional selection is affected by simultaneous
statistical learning of target and distractor regularities. Participants performed an additional …

During visual search, it is important to reduce the interference of distracting objects in the
scene. The neuronal responses elicited by the search target stimulus are typically …

There has been a longstanding debate as to whether salient stimuli have the power to
involuntarily capture attention. As a potential resolution to this debate, the signal …

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

The current study touches on a central debate in the area of attention: how the human brain
handles distraction by salient stimuli. The idea of proactive suppression proposes a new …

It is commonly assumed that salient singletons generate an “attend-to-me signal” which
causes suppression to develop over time, eventually preventing capture. Despite this …

There is much debate about the neural mechanisms that achieve suppression of salient
distracting stimuli during visual search. The proactive suppression hypothesis asserts that if …