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 …

Our search performance is strongly influenced by our past experience. In the lab, this
influence has been demonstrated by investigating a variety of phenomena, including …

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 …

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

Many models of attention assume that attentional selection takes place at a specific moment
in time that demarcates the critical transition from pre-attentive to attentive processing of …

It is commonly assumed that salient singletons generate an “attend-to-me signal” which
causes suppression to develop over time, eventually preventing capture. Despite this …

The N2pc is routinely used as an electrophysiological index of attentional shifting. Its
absence is thus taken as evidence that no shift of attention occurred. We provide evidence in …

There has been a lengthy debate about whether salient stimuli have the power to
automatically capture attention, even when entirely task irrelevant. Theeuwes (2022) has …

There is considerable evidence that salient items can be suppressed in order to prevent
attentional capture. However, this evidence has relied almost exclusively on paradigms …

The present meta-analyses investigated the widely used contingent-capture protocol.
Contingent-capture theory postulates that only top-down matching stimuli capture attention …