The scientific community has witnessed growing concern about the high rate of false
positives and unreliable results within the psychological literature, but the harmful impact of …

Experimental psychologists often neglect the poor psychometric properties of the dependent
measures collected in their studies. In particular, a low reliability of measures can have …

The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

Many studies claim that visual regularities can be learned unconsciously and without explicit
awareness. For example in the contextual cueing paradigm, studies often make claims using …

Visual search in natural scenes is a complex task relying on peripheral vision to detect
potential targets and central vision to verify them. The segregation of the visual fields has …

Visual search improves when a target is encountered repeatedly at a fixed location within a
stable distractor arrangement (spatial context), compared to non-repeated contexts. The …

In healthy vision, the fovea provides high acuity and serves as the locus for fixation achieved
through saccadic eye movements. Bilateral loss of the foveal regions in both eyes causes …

Our visual brain is remarkable in extracting invariant properties from the noisy environment,
guiding selection of where to look and what to identify. However, how the brain achieves this …

Visual search through previously encountered contexts typically produces reduced reaction
times compared with search through novel contexts. This contextual cueing benefit is well …

Visual search for targets in repeated displays is more efficient than search for the same
targets in random distractor layouts. Previous work has shown that this contextual cueing is …