Lavie and Tsal (1994) proposed that spare attentional capacity is allocated involuntarily to
the processing of irrelevant stimuli, thereby enabling interference. Under this view, when …

Most Chinese characters are compounds consisting of a semantic radical indicating
semantic category and a phonetic radical cuing the pronunciation of the character …

In the flanker paradigm, participants identify a target letter while attempting to ignore an
irrelevant flanker. When the identity of this flanker mismatches the target, target identification …

One of the most robust findings in attention research is that the time to name a color is
lengthened markedly in the presence of an irrelevant word that spells a different color name …

Do various operational definitions of visual attention tap the same underlying process? To
address this question, we probed visual selective attention using orientation of attention …

In order to gauge in a precise fashion the capture of attention by emotional stimuli, we
developed a new tool that imports the classic Stroop effect into the realm of emotion …

Previous studies have disagreed about the extent to which people extract meaning from
words presented outside the focus of spatial attention. The present study examined a …

Many studies have found processing interference in working memory when complex
information that enters the cognitive system from different modalities has to be integrated to …

Three experiments tested whether the Stroop color-naming effect is a consequence of word
recognition's being automatic or of the color word's capturing visual attention. In Experiment …

We investigated the influence of conceptual processing on visual attention from the
standpoint of Theory of Event Coding (TEC). The theory makes two predictions: first, an …