The present paper argues for the notion that when attention is spread across the visual field
in the first sweep of information through the brain visual selection is completely stimulus …

The ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli in the presence of potentially
interfering distractors is crucial for any coherent cognitive function. However, simply …

The perception of pain is the result of a complex dynamic system that codes, transports and
processes nociceptive signals. The relationship between nociceptive information and pain is …

Pain is known to disrupt attentional performance in both healthy adults and patients with
chronic pain. Exactly which aspects of attentional function are affected are, however, still to …

Three experiments examined whether salient color singleton distractors automatically
interfere with the detection singleton form targets in visual search (eg, J. Theeuwes, 1992) …

Attention may be distracted from its intended focus both by stimuli in the external
environment and by internally generated task-unrelated thoughts during mind wandering …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

This article presents a cognitive model of distraction and mind-wandering that combines and
formalizes several existing theories. It assumes that task-related goals and opportunities for …

Lavie and Tsal (1994) proposed that spare attentional capacity is allocated involuntarily to
the processing of irrelevant stimuli, thereby enabling interference. Under this view, when …

The perceptual load and dilution models differ fundamentally in terms of the proposed
mechanism underlying variation in distractibility during different perceptual conditions …