Prominent models of attentional control assert a dichotomy between top-down and bottom-
up control, with the former determined by current selection goals and the latter determined …

Attention researchers have long debated the roles of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms
in controlling attention. Theeuwes (2018) has argued that that top-down control is much less …

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

Selective visual attention to objects and locations depends both on deliberate behavioral
goals that regulate even early visual representations (goal-directed influences) and on …

Attention selects stimuli for cognitive processing, and the mechanisms that underlie the
process of attentional selection have been a major topic of psychological research for over …

My first poster presentation at a scientific meeting was no success. I offered a new
theoretical framework on stimulus and response representation (the later theory of event …

Attention is automatically drawn to stimulus features previously associated with reward, a
phenomenon referred to as value-driven attentional capture. To date, value-driven …

Recent research has expanded the list of factors that control spatial attention. Beside current
goals and perceptual salience, statistical learning, reward, motivation and emotion also …

Attentional control as an ability to regulate information processing during goal-directed
behavior is critical to many theories of human cognition and thought to predict a large range …

Visual selective attention is the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that, of
the millions of bits per second transmitted by the retina, the information that is most important …