An important component of routine visual behavior is the ability to find one item in a visual
world filled with other, distracting items. This ability to perform visual search has been the …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

There has been a long-standing debate concerning whether we are able to resist attention
capture by salient distractors. The so-called “signal suppression hypothesis” of Gaspelin and …

Summary In Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, the Scottish rebel, the Earl of Douglas, engages
in a visual search task. He is searching for King Henry in a field full of soldiers who are not …

In a typical visual search experiment, observers look through a set of items for a designated
target that may or may not be present. Reaction time (RT) is measured as a function of the …

Singer, 1994). The basis for this argument is that it is necessary to “tag” each visual neuron
to signify the object to which its activity relates. Each neuron therefore has to carry two …

Los Angeles, California 90089 that are postulated by classical neural networks, it is
important to introduce an important parameter. Although not often made explicit, it is …

An instance theory of attention and memory (ITAM) is presented that integrates formal
theories of attention and memory phenomena by exploiting commonalities in their formal …

How should a visual search task be terminated when no target is found? Such searches
could end after a serial search throughallitems, but blank trials in many tasks are terminated …

There has been a long-lasting debate about whether salient stimuli, such as uniquely
colored objects, have the ability to automatically distract us. To resolve this debate, it has …