Getting rid of visual distractors: The why, when, how, and where

L Chelazzi, F Marini, D Pascucci, M Turatto - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

M Wöstmann, VS Störmer, J Obleser… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

Suppression of overt attentional capture by salient-but-irrelevant color singletons

N Gaspelin, CJ Leonard, SJ Luck - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2017 - Springer
For more than 2 decades, researchers have debated the nature of cognitive control in the
guidance of visual attention. Stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically …

Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression

JJ Geng - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The ability to suppress distractors is critical for the successful completion of goal-oriented
behaviors. This is particularly true for everyday behaviors that take time to accomplish and …

A common neural mechanism for preventing and terminating the allocation of attention

R Sawaki, JJ Geng, SJ Luck - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

Inhibition as a potential resolution to the attentional capture debate

N Gaspelin, SJ Luck - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
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Feature-based statistical regularities of distractors modulate attentional capture.

BT Stilwell, B Bahle, SP Vecera - Journal of experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Ignoring salient distracting information is paramount to efficiently guiding attention during
visual search. Learning to reject or suppress these strong sources of distraction leads to …

Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction

HR Liesefeld, D Lamy, N Gaspelin, JJ Geng… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2024 - Springer
Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

Measuring attentional distraction in children with ADHD using virtual reality technology with eye-tracking

JD Stokes, A Rizzo, JJ Geng… - Frontiers in virtual reality, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Distractions inordinately impair attention in children with Attention-Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) but examining this behavior under real-life conditions poses …

Eye movement behavior in a real-world virtual reality task reveals ADHD in children

L Merzon, K Pettersson, ET Aronen, H Huhdanpää… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Eye movements and other rich data obtained in virtual reality (VR) environments resembling
situations where symptoms are manifested could help in the objective detection of various …