In daily life, it is critical that we are able to direct our visual attention to information that is
important for our tasks while avoiding distracting information. To control our attention, we …

Working memory (WM) is important for guiding behaviour, but not always for the next
possible action. Here we define a WM item that is currently relevant for guiding behaviour as …

Recent behavioural research has provided support for an active attentional suppression of
known distractor items. Reaction times are faster when participants are informed of the …

Visual working memory (VWM) adopts a specific manner of object-based encoding (OBE) to
extract perceptual information: Whenever one feature-dimension is selected for entry into …

A rapidly growing body of work suggests that visual working memory (VWM) is
fundamentally action oriented. Consistent with this, we recently showed that attention is …

To-be-attended information can be specified either with positive cues (I'll be wearing a blue
shirt) or with negative cues (I won't be wearing a red shirt). Numerous experiments have …

Recent evidence shows that when the contents of visual working memory overlap with
targets and distractors in a pop-out search task, intertrial priming is inhibited (Kristjánsson …

The contents of working memory (WM) have been repeatedly found to guide the allocation of
visual attention; in a dual-task paradigm that combines WM and visual search, actively …

ABSTRACT A remarkable ability of the human visual system is the implementation of
attentional control settings (ACSs) that govern what stimuli capture or hold attention. We …

Various theoretical proposals have been put forward to explain how memory
representations control attention during visual search. In this study, we use the first saccade …