Whether or not the capture of visual attention is driven solely by the salience of an attention-
capturing stimulus or mediated by top-down control has been a point of contention since …

In a host of studies, the ability of various types of cues to capture attention has been
examined. This article reviews a number of these studies by organizing them into a …

In daily life (eg, in the work environment) people are often distracted by stimuli that are
clearly irrelevant to the current task and should be ignored. In contrast, much applied …

Six experiments were conducted to determine the circumstances under which an irrelevant
singleton captures attention. Subjects searched for a target while ignoring a salient distractor …

Studies of attentional capture often question whether an irrelevant distractor will capture
attention or be successfully ignored (eg, Folk & Remington, 1998). Here we establish a new …

Abstract JT Enns and V. Di Lollo (1997) discovered a new form of visual masking that they
labeled object substitution masking (OSM). OSM occurs when 4 dots, presented around a …

According to contingent-processing accounts, peripheral cuing effects are due to the cues'
inadvertent selection for processing by control settings set up for targets (eg, CL Folk, RW …

The phenomenon of attentional capture by a unique yet irrelevant singleton distractor has
typically been studied in visual search. In this article, the authors examine whether a similar …

Under some circumstances, moving objects capture attention. Whether a change in the
direction of a moving object attracts attention is still unexplored. We investigated this using a …

In four experiments we address the question whether several visual objects can be selected
voluntarily (exogenously) and then tracked in a Multiple Object Tracking paradigm and, if so …