What we have recently seen and attended to strongly influences how we subsequently
allocate visual attention. A clear example is how repeated presentation of an object's …

Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control
strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …

One of our highest evolved functions as human beings is our capacity to switch between
multiple tasks effectively. A body of research has identified a distributed frontoparietal …

As Seneca the Younger put it,“To err is human, but to persist is diabolical.” To prevent
repetition of errors, human performance monitoring often triggers adaptations such as …

Task switching is an important aspect of cognitive control and understanding its underlying
mechanisms is the focus of considerable research. In this paper, we contrast two different …

In cross-dimensional visual search tasks, target discrimination is faster when the previous
trial contained a target defined in the same visual dimension as the current trial. The …

In visual search for singleton feature targets, detection RTs are faster when the target-
defining dimension is constant across trials rather than variable; in the latter case, RTs are …

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 …

The study of inter-trial effects in visual search has generated an increasing amount of
research in recent years. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects are still a …

In classic visual pop-out search, response times are slowed remarkably when participants
are required to precisely identify (eg, vertical vs. horizontal orientation) as compared to …