Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction

HR Liesefeld, D Lamy, N Gaspelin, JJ Geng… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2024 - Springer
Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

The role of alpha oscillations in resisting distraction

M Bonnefond, O Jensen - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The role of alpha oscillations (8–13 Hz) in suppressing distractors is extensively debated.
One debate concerns whether alpha oscillations suppress anticipated visual distractors …

Analysis of weight-directed functional brain networks in the deception state based on EEG signal

S Wei, J Gao, Y Yang, N Xiong, J Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although analyzing the brain's functional and structural network has revealed that numerous
brain networks are necessary to collaborate during deception, the directionality of these …

[HTML][HTML] Parietal alpha stimulation causally enhances attentional information coding in evoked and oscillatory activity

R Lu, E Michael, CL Scrivener, JB Jackson, J Duncan… - Brain Stimulation, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Selective attention is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows people to
prioritise task-relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information. Previous research …

Separate cue-and alpha-related mechanisms for distractor suppression

ZV Redding, IC Fiebelkorn - Journal of neuroscience, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Research on selective attention has largely focused on the enhancement of behaviorally
important information, with less focus on the suppression of distracting information …

Auditory change detection and visual selective attention: association between MMN and N2pc

Y Kong, C Zhao, D Li, B Li, Y Hu, H Liu… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
While the auditory and visual systems each provide distinct information to our brain, they
also work together to process and prioritize input to address ever-changing conditions …

Relative saliency affects attentional capture and suppression of color and face singleton distractors: evidence from event-related potential studies

Y Zhang, H Zhang, S Fu - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Prior research has yet to fully elucidate the impact of varying relative saliency between target
and distractor on attentional capture and suppression, along with their underlying neural …

Willed Attentional Selection of Visual Features: an EEG Study

J Wang, J Wang, J Hu, S Tong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual selective attention studies generally tend to apply cuing paradigms to instructively
direct observers' attention to certain locations, features or objects. However, in real …

Alpha desynchronization during the filtering initiation phase reflects active processing of distractors

J Liu, C Shang, Q Zhang - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to select task-relevant information and filter out task-irrelevant information is
critical to our success in daily goal-directed behavior. Researchers call this ability filtering …

Distractor suppression does and does not depend on pre-distractor alpha-band activity

ZV Redding, IC Fiebelkorn - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Selective attention enhances behaviorally important information and suppresses distracting
information. Research on the neural basis of selective attention has largely focused on …