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

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 …

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 …

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 …

A longstanding debate in visual attention research has been whether physically salient
objects have an automatic power to capture attention. Recent evidence has supported a …

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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 …

Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control
strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …

Decades of research in attention have shown that salient distractors (eg, a color singleton)
tend to capture attention. However, in most studies, singleton distractors are just as likely to …

Ignoring salient distracting information is paramount to efficiently guiding attention during
visual search. Learning to reject or suppress these strong sources of distraction leads to …