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 …

A rapidly growing body of research indicates that inhibition of distracting information may not
be under flexible, top-down control, but instead heavily relies on expectations derived from …

Recently it has been shown that statistical learning of regularities presented in a display can
bias attentional selection, such that attentional capture by salient objects is reduced by …

Through statistical learning, humans can learn to suppress visual areas that often contain
distractors. Recent findings suggest that this form of learned suppression is insensitive to …

Although humans can voluntarily direct their attention to particular stimuli, attention can at
times be involuntarily allocated to stimuli and such attentional capture can result in …

The control of attention was long held to reflect the influence of two competing mechanisms
of assigning priority, one goal-directed and the other stimulus-driven. Learning-dependent …

Habituation represents a well-established form of learning in various neuroscience domains.
However, cognitive psychologists working in the field of visual attention have largely …

Physically salient but task-irrelevant stimuli have high attentional priority, although observers
are able to capitalize on statistical regularities in the environment to more efficiently ignore …

Recent findings suggest that attentional and oculomotor control is heavily affected by past
experience, giving rise to selection and suppression history effects, so that target selection is …