Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

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 …

Previous research has revealed that people can suppress salient stimuli that might
otherwise capture visual attention. The present study tests between 3 possible mechanisms …

A longstanding debate in visual attention research has been whether physically salient
objects have an automatic power to capture attention. Recent evidence has supported a …

In the present study, we explored the mechanisms involved in the contingent capture
phenomenon, using a variant of the classic precuing paradigm of Folk, Remington, and …

Current models of visual search assume that visual attention can be guided by tuning
attention toward specific feature values (eg, particular size, color) or by inhibiting the …

The question whether attentional capture by salient but task-irrelevant visual stimuli is
triggered in a bottom–up fashion or depends on top–down task settings is still unresolved …

Decades of research in attention have shown that salient distractors (eg, a color singleton)
tend to capture attention. However, in most studies, singleton distractors are just as likely to …

Although models of visual search have often assumed that attention can only be set for a
single feature or property at a time, recent studies have suggested that it may be possible to …

Theories of attention commonly refer to the “attentional template” as the collection of features
in working memory that represent the target of visual search. Many models of attention …