Salience is a core determinant of attentional processing. Although information on salience
has been shown to dissipate within a few hundred milliseconds, we recently observed …

A salient object can attract attention irrespective of its relevance to current goals. However,
this bottom up effect tends to be short-lived (eg< 150 ms) and it is generally assumed that …

The ability to detect an object depends on the contrast between the object and its
background. Despite this, many models of visual search rely solely on the properties of …

To find a target during visual search, observers often need to make multiple eye movements,
which results in a scan path. It is an open question whether the saccade destinations in scan …

The present study investigated the visual scanning pattern of children with typical
development in three different age groups (4–6, 6–8, 8–10 years old). We used a data set …

Saccade latencies are known to increase for targets presented close to fixation. Recently, it
was shown that not only target eccentricity, but the size of a proximal saccade target also …

Visual–spatial attention can be biased towards salient visual information without visual
awareness. It is unclear, however, whether such bias can further influence free-choices such …

The present study aimed to investigate whether people can selectively use salience
information in search for a target. Observers were presented with a display consisting of …

Recently, we showed that salience affects initial saccades only in a static stimulus
environment; subsequent saccades were unaffected by salience but, instead, were directed …

Several models of selection in search predict that saccades are biased toward conspicuous
objects (also referred to as salient objects). Indeed, it has been demonstrated that initial …