Highlights•A comprehensive model of visual attention requires understanding how attention
is spread across space.•Current knowledge about the spread of attention is predominantly …

Recently it has been discovered that visuospatial attention operates rhythmically, rather than
being stably employed over time. A low-frequency 7–8 Hz rhythmic mechanism coordinates …

The current study investigates whether statistical regularities that change over time affect
attentional selection. While searching for a target singleton, the distractor singleton was …

Spatial attention is a necessary cognitive process, allowing for the direction of limited
capacity resources to varying locations in the visual field for improved visual processing …

Humans can focus their attention narrowly (eg, to read this text) or broadly (eg, to determine
which way a large crowd of people are moving). This Element comprehensively considers …

Originally, the zoom lens model of attention scaling proposed that narrowing attention to a
small area of the visual field improves visual perception (Eriksen & St. James, 1986). A large …

Cuing a location in space produces a short-lived advantage in reaction time to targets at that
location. This early advantage, however, switches to a reaction time cost and has been …

When preparing a saccade, attentional resources are focused at the saccade target and its
immediate vicinity. Here we show that this does not hold true when saccades are prepared …

The current study aimed to explore cultural differences in the covert spatial distribution of
attention. In particular, we tested whether those born in an East Asian country adopted a …

Decades of research using Posner's classic spatial cueing paradigm has uncovered at least
two forms of inhibition of return (IOR) in the aftermath of an exogenous, peripheral orienting …