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 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 …

Salient-but-irrelevant stimuli (distractors) co-occurring with search targets can capture
attention against the observer's will. Recently, evidence has accumulated that preparatory …

The biased competition account claims that competition between two stimuli increases when
they are close together compared with when they are far apart. The reason is that nearby …

Salient but task-irrelevant distractors interfere less with visual search when they appear in a
display region where distractors have appeared more frequently in the past (“distractor …

The additional singleton task has become a popular paradigm to explore visual statistical
learning and selective attention. In this task, participants are instructed to find a different …

Abstract Effects of statistical learning (SL) of distractor location have been shown to persist
when the probabilities of distractor occurrence are equalized across different locations in a …

Distraction by a salient object can be reduced when we implicitly learn to suppress its most
likely location. The current study investigated whether this suppression can also be tuned to …

The present study used perceptual sensitivity (d′) to determine the spatial distribution of
attention in displays in which participants have learned to suppress a location that is most …

Previous studies have shown that abrupt onsets randomly appearing at different locations
can be ignored with practice, a result that was interpreted as an instance of habituation …