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 …

The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …