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 …

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 …

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

Recently it was argued that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, lingering
biases of selection history play a major role in visual selection (Awh, Belopolsky & …

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 …

Abstract Recently, Wang and Theeuwes (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 44 (1), 13–17, 2018a) demonstrated the role of lingering …

Researchers have long debated how salient-but-irrelevant features guide visual attention.
Pure stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically capture attention …

Previous research has revealed that people can suppress salient stimuli that might
otherwise capture visual attention. The present study tests between 3 possible mechanisms …

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 …