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 …

Recent debate about the reliability of psychological research has raised concerns about the
prevalence of false positives in our discipline. However, false negatives can be just as …

Previous studies have shown that attention becomes biased toward those locations that
frequently contain a target and is biased away from locations that have a high probability to …

Abstract In studies on probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target
among several distractors and report some feature of the target. In a biased stage the target …

Foraging and search tasks in everyday activities are often performed in large, open spaces,
necessitating head and body movements. Such activities are rarely studied in the laboratory …

In visual statistical learning (VSL), one can extract and exhibit memory for the statistical
regularities of target locations in an incidental manner. The current study examined the …

A top-down attentional set can persist from a relevant task to an irrelevant task, influencing
allocation of attentional resources, visual search, and performance. While this “carry-over” …

Prior information represents the long-term statistical structure of an environment. For
example, colds develop more often than throat cancer, making the former a more likely …

Large-scale search behaviour is an everyday occurrence, yet its underlying mechanisms are
not commonly examined within experimental psychology. Key to efficient search behaviour …

Navigation and search are fundamental daily activities, however, their ubiquity belies their
complexity. These behaviours are reliant upon multiple underlying cognitive processes …