The influence of attention on value integration

MA Kunar, DG Watson, K Tsetsos, N Chater - Attention, Perception, & …, 2017 - Springer
People often have to make decisions based on many pieces of information. Previous work
has found that people are able to integrate values presented in a rapid serial visual …

Visual working memory supports the inhibition of previously processed information: evidence from preview search.

N Al-Aidroos, SM Emrich, S Ferber… - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
In four experiments we assessed whether visual working memory (VWM) maintains a record
of previously processed visual information, allowing old information to be inhibited, and new …

Inhibition in time-based visual selection: Strategic or by default?

Z Zupan, DG Watson, E Blagrove - Journal of experimental …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The visual marking mechanism (Watson & Humphreys, 1997) allows new objects to be
prioritized by applying top-down inhibition to a set of previewed distractors, increasing the …

Low prevalence search for cancers in mammograms: Evidence using laboratory experiments and computer aided detection.

MA Kunar, DG Watson, S Taylor-Phillips… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
People miss a large proportion of targets when they only appear rarely. This Low
Prevalence (LP) Effect could lead to serious consequences if it occurred in the real-world …

Blink and you won't miss it: The preview benefit in visual marking survives internally generated eyeblinks.

A von Mühlenen, D Watson… - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
People are able to ignore old (previewed) stimuli in order to prioritize the processing of
newly appearing items—the preview benefit (DG Watson & GW Humphreys, 1997,“Visual …

Study on the correlation and inhibition of visual marking and industrial icons

X Wu, K Zhang, Z Fang, DP Brumby, X Mao, X Wang… - Displays, 2023 - Elsevier
As a carrier of complex information, industrial icons play an important role in intelligent
manufacturing systems, and the superiority of its visual presentation affects the visual search …

When are abrupt onsets found efficiently in complex visual search? Evidence from multielement asynchronous dynamic search.

MA Kunar, DG Watson - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous work has found that search principles derived from simple visual search tasks do
not necessarily apply to more complex search tasks. Using a Multielement Asynchronous …

Visuospatial working memory mediates inhibitory and facilitatory guidance in preview search.

DJK Barrett, SS Shimozaki, S Jensen… - Journal of experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual search is faster and more accurate when a subset of distractors is presented before
the display containing the target. This “preview benefit” has been attributed to separate …

Ignoring real faces: Effects of valence, threat, and salience

E Blagrove, DG Watson - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2014 - Springer
Facial stimuli have been shown to accrue a special status within visual processing,
particularly when attention is prioritized to one face over another on the basis of affective …

It is not good to talk: conversation has a fixed interference cost on attention regardless of difficulty

MA Kunar, L Cole, A Cox, J Ocampo - Cognitive Research: Principles and …, 2018 - Springer
It is well-documented that telephone conversations lead to impaired driving performance.
Kunar et al.(Psychon Bull Rev 15: 1135–1140, 2008) showed that this deficit was, in part …