Theories of visual attention argue that attention operates on perceptual objects, and thus
that interactions between object formation and selective attention determine how competing …

This tutorial provides a selective review of research on object-based deployment of
attention. It focuses primarily on behavioral studies with human observers. The tutorial is …

We investigated the role of spatial probabilities in target location during participants'
performance of a visual search task. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that spatial …

Although much less is known about human parietal cortex than that of homologous monkey
cortex, recent studies, employing neuroimaging, and neuropsychological methods, have …

Linear mixed models (LMMs) provide a still underused methodological perspective on
combining experimental and individual-differences research. Here we illustrate this …

Interactions between visual attention and visual short-term memory (VSTM) play a central
role in cognitive processing. For example, attention can assist in selectively encoding items …

Organisms operate within both a perceptual domain of objects and events, and a mnemonic
domain of past experiences and future goals. Each domain requires a deliberate selection of …

Selective attention may be focused upon a region of interest within the visual surroundings,
thereby improving the perceptual quality of stimuli at that location. It has been debated …

The authors investigated 2 effects of object-based attention: the spread of attention within an
attended object and the prioritization of search across possible target locations within an …

Although objects are the fundamental units of our representation interpreting the
environment around us, it is still not clear how we handle and organize the incoming …