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 …

Recent debate about the reliability of psychological research has raised concerns about the
prevalence of false positives in our discipline. However, false negatives can be just as …

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

Highlights•Prior experience can induce long-lasting changes in attention.•Habit-like
attention ranges from reading direction to statistical and reward learning.•Several hundred …

People can quickly learn spatial distributions of targets and direct attention to likely regions
of targets. These implicitly learned spatial biases have been shown to be persistent …

In probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target object that appears
more frequently in one region of the display. This task results in a search bias toward the rich …

Highlights•Review of recent research on the basal ganglia in habit learning.•Habit
representations involve both striatum and cortex.•Direct and indirect pathways both support …

Daily activities often occur in familiar environments, affording us an opportunity to learn.
Laboratory studies have shown that people readily acquire an implicit spatial preference for …

Extensive research has examined how current goals influence spatial attention. Yet the
allocation of spatial attention is also guided by previous experience, which may induce …