This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention
is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and …

Attention allows us to select relevant sensory information for preferential processing.
Behaviourally, it improves performance in various visual tasks. One prominent effect of …

An important effect of sustained attention is the facilitation of perception. Although the term
“sustained” suggests that this beneficial effect endures continuously as long as something is …

Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains
unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision—it …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Social networks are a source of competitive advantage for destination management
organizations (DMOs) in promoting user-generated content. In the online environment, the …

What is the relationship between attention and conscious awareness? Awareness
sometimes appears to be restricted to the contents of focused attention, yet at other times …

Covert attention, the selective processing of visual information in the absence of eye
movements, improves behavioral performance. We found that attention, both exogenous …

What is the relationship between top-down and bottom-up attention? Are both types of
attention tightly interconnected, or are they independent? We investigated this by testing a …

Highlights•Covert attention improves sensory processing in many visual tasks.•Covert
attention also alters the appearance of visual information.•Many spatial and temporal …