What to expect where and when: How statistical learning drives visual selection

J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts, D van Moorselaar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

Goal-driven, stimulus-driven, and history-driven selection

J Theeuwes - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Lingering biases of previous selection episodes play a major role in attentional
selection.•Statistical learning of the environmental regularities biases attentional …

Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning

N Siegelman, L Bogaerts… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In recent years, statistical learning (SL) research has seen a growing interest in tracking
individual performance in SL tasks, mainly as a predictor of linguistic abilities. We review …

Habitual versus goal-driven attention

YV Jiang - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent research has expanded the list of factors that control spatial attention. Beside current
goals and perceptual salience, statistical learning, reward, motivation and emotion also …

The procedural learning deficit hypothesis of language learning disorders: We see some problems

G West, MA Vadillo, DR Shanks… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Impaired procedural learning has been suggested as a possible cause of developmental
dyslexia (DD) and specific language impairment (SLI). This study examined the relationship …

Mechanisms of contextual cueing: A tutorial review

CA Sisk, RW Remington, YV Jiang - Attention, Perception, & …, 2019 - Springer
Repeated contexts yield faster response time in visual search, compared with novel
contexts. This effect is known as contextual cueing. Despite extensive study over the past …

Raising awareness about measurement error in research on unconscious mental processes

MA Vadillo, S Malejka, DYH Lee, Z Dienes… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2022 - Springer
Experimental psychologists often neglect the poor psychometric properties of the dependent
measures collected in their studies. In particular, a low reliability of measures can have …

Region-based shielding of visual search from salient distractors: Target detection is impaired with same-but not different-dimension distractors

M Sauter, HR Liesefeld, M Zehetleitner… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2018 - Springer
Shielding visual search against interference from salient distractors becomes more efficient
over time for display regions where distractors appear more frequently, rather than only …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of inferring unconscious mental processes

DR Shanks, S Malejka… - Experimental Psychology, 2021 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Studies of unconscious mental processes often compare a performance measure (eg, some
assessment of perception or memory) with a measure of awareness (eg, a verbal report or …