While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

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 …

For over 25 years, researchers have debated whether physically salient stimuli capture
attention in an automatic manner, independent of the observer's goals, or whether the …

Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

For more than 2 decades, researchers have debated the nature of cognitive control in the
guidance of visual attention. Stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically …

Abstract Recently, Wang and Theeuwes (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 44 (1), 13–17, 2018a) demonstrated the role of lingering …

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 …

Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

Recently the signal-suppression account was proposed, positing that salient stimuli
automatically produce a bottom-up salience signal that can be suppressed via top-down …