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 …

Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

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 …

An essential guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing event-related potential (ERP)
experiments, completely updated for this edition. The event-related potential (ERP) …

Researchers have long debated how salient-but-irrelevant features guide visual attention.
Pure stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically capture attention …

Previous research has revealed that people can suppress salient stimuli that might
otherwise capture visual attention. The present study tests between 3 possible mechanisms …

There is considerable controversy about whether salient singletons capture attention in a
bottom-up fashion, irrespective of top-down control settings. One possibility is that salient …

Attention selects stimuli for cognitive processing, and the mechanisms that underlie the
process of attentional selection have been a major topic of psychological research for over …

A longstanding debate in visual attention research has been whether physically salient
objects have an automatic power to capture attention. Recent evidence has supported a …

Much is known about the mechanisms by which attention is focused to facilitate perception,
but little is known about what happens to attention after perception of the attended object is …