Publisher Summary Attention is a familiar and ubiquitous psychological construct that is
widely alluded to in various scientific, clinical, and colloquial domains. Attention also …

Previously we have shown that transient attention—the more automatic, stimulus-driven
component of spatial attention—enhances spatial resolution. Specifically, transient attention …

Abstract Object identities (“what”) and their spatial locations (“where”) are processed in
distinct pathways in the visual system, raising the question of how the what and where …

Three experiments examined whether positional priming of pop-out is modulated by target
salience. In Experiment 1, the singleton target appeared among variable numbers of …

The present study investigates the representations (s) underlying positional priming of visual
'pop-out'search. Three search items (one target and two distractors) were presented at …

Visual attention can be deployed to stimuli based on our willful, top-down goal (endogenous
attention) or on their intrinsic saliency against the background (exogenous attention) …

Attentional mechanisms allow the brain to selectively allocate its resources to stimuli of
interest within the huge amount of information reaching its sensory systems. The voluntary …

Visual-spatial attention enhances the perception of behaviorally relevant stimuli. One issue
that remains unclear is whether attention is preferentially allocated to stimuli that remain …

Spatial covert attention is the selective processing of visual information at a given location in
space in the absence of eye movements to that location. Covert attention can either be …