The nature of the relationship between spatial attention and eye movements has been the
subject of intense debate for more than 40 years. Two ideas have dominated this debate …

In three experiments, a referential communication task was used to determine the conditions
under which speakers produce and listeners use prosodic cues to distinguish alternative …

Many lines of evidence show that the human visual system does not simply passively
register whatever appears in the visual field. The visual system seems to preferentially …

Implicit learning about where a visual search target is likely to appear often speeds up
search. However, whether implicit learning guides spatial attention or affects postsearch …

When transient attention is summoned by the sudden appearance of a large cue, it can be
deployed to a small portion of the cue where a target appeared on previous trials …

We show that transient attention summoned by an exogenous cue shows rapid learning of
the relationship between the cue and a subsequent target in a discrimination task. In …

A localization task required participants to indicate which of 4 locations contained a briefly
displayed target. Most displays also contained a distractor that was not equally probable in …

Expecting a particular stimulus can facilitate processing of that stimulus over others, but what
is the fate of other stimuli that are known to co-occur with the expected stimulus? This study …

Adaptive behaviour requires that organisms continuously monitor the environment for
potentially significant information and evaluate whether currently unattended stimuli afford a …

Three experiments examined visual orienting in response to spatial precues. In Experiments
1 and 2, attentional effects of central letters were stimulus driven: Orienting was dependent …