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 …

Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on
our ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor …

Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

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 …

Visual attention is highly influenced by past experiences. Recent behavioral research has
shown that expectations about the spatial location of distractors within a search array are …

Our visual environment is complicated, and our cognitive capacity is limited. As a result, we
must strategically ignore some stimuli to prioritize others. Common sense suggests that …

Predictions based on learned statistical regularities in the visual world have been shown to
facilitate attention and goal-directed behavior by sharpening the sensory representation of …

Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

A rapidly growing body of research indicates that inhibition of distracting information may not
be under flexible, top-down control, but instead heavily relies on expectations derived from …

Many attention theories assume that selection is guided by a preattentive, spatial
representation of the scene that combines bottom-up stimulus information with top-down …