While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

There has been a longstanding debate as to whether salient stimuli have the power to
involuntarily capture attention. As a potential resolution to this debate, the signal …

Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building
blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication–and …

To find important objects, we must focus on our goals, ignore distractions, and take our
changing environment into account. This is formalized in models of visual search whereby …

Through statistical learning, humans can learn to suppress visual areas that often contain
distractors. Recent findings suggest that this form of learned suppression is insensitive to …

Observers can learn locations where salient distractors appear frequently to reduce potential
interference—an effect attributed to better suppression of distractors at frequent locations …

Older adults tend to be more prone to distraction compared with young adults, and this age-
related deficit has been attributed to a deficiency in inhibitory processing. However, recent …

Physically salient but task-irrelevant stimuli have high attentional priority, although observers
are able to capitalize on statistical regularities in the environment to more efficiently ignore …

Salient but task-irrelevant distractors interfere less with visual search when they appear in a
display region where distractors have appeared more frequently in the past (“distractor …