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 …

A longstanding debate in visual attention research has been whether physically salient
objects have an automatic power to capture attention. Recent evidence has supported a …

Researchers have long debated whether attentional capture is purely stimulus driven or
purely goal driven. In the current study, we tested a hybrid account, called the signal …

Several studies have demonstrated that salient distractors can be proactively inhibited to
prevent attentional capture. Traditional theories frame attentional guidance effects such as …

In singleton feature search for a form-defined target, the presentation of a task-irrelevant, but
salient singleton color distractor is known to interfere with target detection [Theeuwes …

Although it is often assumed that a physically salient stimulus automatically captures
attention even when it is irrelevant to a current task, the signal-suppression hypothesis …

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 …

Previous research suggests that observers can suppress salient-but-irrelevant stimuli in a
top-down manner. However, one question left unresolved is whether such suppression is, in …

Visual attention is deployed through visual scenes to find behaviorally relevant targets. This
attentional deployment—or attentional control—can be based on either stimulus factors …

It is commonly assumed that salient singletons generate an “attend-to-me signal” which
causes suppression to develop over time, eventually preventing capture. Despite this …