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 …

Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

Statistical regularities in distractor location trigger suppression of high-probability distractor
locations during visual search. The degree to which such suppression reflects …

The current review presents an integrated tripartite framework for understanding attentional
control, emphasizing the interaction and competition among top-down, bottom-up, and …

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 …

Irrelevant salient objects may capture our attention and interfere with visual search.
Recently, it was shown that distraction by a salient object is reduced when it is presented …

People can learn to ignore salient distractors that occur frequently at particular locations,
making them interfere less with task performance. This effect has been attributed to learnt …

Observers can learn locations where salient distractors appear frequently to reduce potential
interference—an effect attributed to better suppression of distractors at frequent locations …

Learning to ignore distractors is critical for navigating the visual world. Research has
suggested that a location frequently containing a salient distractor can be suppressed. How …