Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search

JM Wolfe - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2021 - Springer
Abstract This paper describes Guided Search 6.0 (GS6), a revised model of visual search.
When we encounter a scene, we can see something everywhere. However, we cannot …

Attentional capture and control

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 …

Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate

SJ Luck, N Gaspelin, CL Folk, RW Remington… - Visual …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Distractor handling via dimension weighting

HR Liesefeld, HJ Müller - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control
strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …

Region-based shielding of visual search from salient distractors: Target detection is impaired with same-but not different-dimension distractors

M Sauter, HR Liesefeld, M Zehetleitner… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2018 - Springer
Shielding visual search against interference from salient distractors becomes more efficient
over time for display regions where distractors appear more frequently, rather than only …

Learning to suppress salient distractors in the target dimension: Region-based inhibition is persistent and transfers to distractors in a nontarget dimension.

M Sauter, HR Liesefeld, HJ Müller - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

A meta-analysis of contingent-capture effects

C Büsel, M Voracek, U Ansorge - Psychological research, 2020 - Springer
The present meta-analyses investigated the widely used contingent-capture protocol.
Contingent-capture theory postulates that only top-down matching stimuli capture attention …

The Impact of Visual Stimuli and Properties on Restorative Effect and Human Stress: A Literature Review

A Sedghikhanshir, Y Zhu, MR Beck, A Jafari - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Restorative environments are known as places where human stress can be decreased
through restoration of depleted psychological resources. Since the efficiency of natural …

Biasing allocations of attention via selective weighting of saliency signals: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for the dimension-weighting account

HR Liesefeld, AM Liesefeld, S Pollmann… - Processes of visuospatial …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Learned suppression for multiple distractors in visual search.

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 …