J Theeuwes - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The current review presents an integrated tripartite framework for understanding attentional control, emphasizing the interaction and competition among top-down, bottom-up, and …
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 …
Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …
Shielding visual search against interference from salient distractors becomes more efficient over time for display regions where distractors appear more frequently, rather than only …
It was shown previously that observers can learn to exploit an uneven spatial distribution of singleton distractors to better shield visual search from distractors in the frequent versus the …
The present meta-analyses investigated the widely used contingent-capture protocol. Contingent-capture theory postulates that only top-down matching stimuli capture attention …
Restorative environments are known as places where human stress can be decreased through restoration of depleted psychological resources. Since the efficiency of natural …
Abstract Objects that stand out from the environment tend to be of behavioral relevance, and the visual system is tuned to preferably process these salient objects by allocating focused …
BY Won, JJ Geng - Journal of experimental psychology: human …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual search for a target object occurs rapidly if there were no distractors to compete for attention, but this rarely happens in real-world environments. Distractors are almost always …