Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Highlights•The attentional template encodes information about the target and is held in
working or long-term memory.•The attentional template does not contain a veridical copy of …

Visual search is a ubiquitous visual behavior, and efficient search is essential for survival.
Different cognitive models have explained the speed and accuracy of search based either …

Movements of human attention during free viewing have received wide interest in the
computer vision community. However, search behavior, where the fixation scanpaths are …

Visual search is the task of finding things with uncertain locations. Despite decades of
research, the features that guide visual search remain poorly specified, especially in realistic …

Unlike in laboratory visual search tasks—wherein participants are typically presented with a
pictorial representation of the item they are asked to seek out—in real-world searches, the …

We investigated how expected search difficultly affects the attentional template by having
participants search for a teddy bear target among either other teddy bears (difficult search …

We examined how object categories and scene contexts act in conjunction to structure the
acquisition and use of statistical regularities to guide visual search. In an exposure session …