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 …

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 …

Anticipatory distractor suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search

B Wang, J van Driel, E Ort, J Theeuwes - Journal of cognitive …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Salient yet irrelevant objects often capture our attention and interfere with our daily tasks.
Distraction by salient objects can be reduced by suppressing the location where they are …

Neural mechanisms underlying expectation-dependent inhibition of distracting information

D van Moorselaar, E Lampers, E Cordesius, HA Slagter - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Predictions based on learned statistical regularities in the visual world have been shown to
facilitate attention and goal-directed behavior by sharpening the sensory representation of …

[HTML][HTML] Neural mechanisms underlying distractor inhibition on the basis of feature and/or spatial expectations

D van Moorselaar, N Daneshtalab, HA Slagter - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
A rapidly growing body of research indicates that inhibition of distracting information may not
be under flexible, top-down control, but instead heavily relies on expectations derived from …

Statistical regularities induce spatial as well as feature-specific suppression.

M Failing, T Feldmann-Wüstefeld, B Wang… - Journal of …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 45 (10) of Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (see record 2019-57445 …

Specificity and persistence of statistical learning in distractor suppression.

MK Britton, BA Anderson - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical regularities in distractor location trigger suppression of high-probability distractor
locations during visual search. The degree to which such suppression reflects …

Attentional capture and control

J Theeuwes - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The current review presents an integrated tripartite framework for understanding attentional
control, emphasizing the interaction and competition among top-down, bottom-up, and …

Modulations of saliency signals at two hierarchical levels of priority computation revealed by spatial statistical distractor learning.

HR Liesefeld, HJ Müller - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …