What to expect where and when: How statistical learning drives visual selection

J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts, D van Moorselaar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
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 past, present, and future of selection history

BA Anderson, H Kim, AJ Kim, MR Liao… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate

SJ Luck, N Gaspelin, CL Folk, RW Remington… - Visual …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

[HTML][HTML] Visual selection: Usually fast and automatic; seldom slow and volitional

J Theeuwes - Journal of cognition, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recently it was argued that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, lingering
biases of selection history play a major role in visual selection (Awh, Belopolsky & …

Goal-driven, stimulus-driven, and history-driven selection

J Theeuwes - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Lingering biases of previous selection episodes play a major role in attentional
selection.•Statistical learning of the environmental regularities biases attentional …

Inhibition in selective attention

D Van Moorselaar, HA Slagter - … of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on
our ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor …

How to inhibit a distractor location? Statistical learning versus active, top-down suppression

B Wang, J Theeuwes - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Recently, Wang and Theeuwes (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 44 (1), 13–17, 2018a) demonstrated the role of lingering …

Altering spatial priority maps via statistical learning of target selection and distractor filtering

O Ferrante, A Patacca, V Di Caro, C Della Libera… - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
The cognitive system has the capacity to learn and make use of environmental regularities–
known as statistical learning (SL), including for the implicit guidance of attention. For …

Getting rid of visual distractors: The why, when, how, and where

L Chelazzi, F Marini, D Pascucci, M Turatto - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …