The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Visual selective attention is the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that, of
the millions of bits per second transmitted by the retina, the information that is most important …

The cognitive system has the capacity to learn and make use of environmental regularities–
known as statistical learning (SL), including for the implicit guidance of attention. For …

We report a study using the “visual-world” paradigm that investigated (1) the time-course of
phonological prediction in English by native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers whose native …

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 …

Top‐down attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process goal‐relevant
aspects of a scene while ignoring irrelevant aspects. A large body of research has …

Over the last 25 years, the visual world paradigm has enabled discoveries and theoretical
advances in spoken language processing. However, the intuitive interpretation of fixations in …

During scene viewing, is attention primarily guided by low-level image salience or by high-
level semantics? Recent evidence suggests that overt attention in scenes is primarily guided …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

People can quickly learn spatial distributions of targets and direct attention to likely regions
of targets. These implicitly learned spatial biases have been shown to be persistent …