Recently, working memory (WM) has been conceptualized as a limited resource, distributed
flexibly and strategically between an unlimited number of representations. In addition to …

Top‐down attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process goal‐relevant
aspects of a scene while ignoring irrelevant aspects. A large body of research has …

We can locate an object more quickly in a real-world scene when a specific target template
is held in visual working memory, but it is not known exactly how a target template's …

When people look for things in the environment, they use target templates—mental
representations of the objects they are attempting to locate—to guide attention and to assess …

A major part of learning a language is learning to map spoken words onto objects in the
environment. An open question is what are the consequences of this learning for cognition …

The perception of objects in our visual world is influenced by not only their low-level visual
features such as shape and color, but also their high-level features such as meaning and …

Visual attention is often characterized as being guided by precise memories for target
objects. However, real-world search targets have dynamic features that vary over time …

To determine whether categorical search is guided we had subjects search for teddy bear
targets either with a target preview (specific condition) or without (categorical condition) …

It seems intuitive to think that previous exposure or interaction with an environment should
make it easier to search through it and, no doubt, this is true in many real-world situations …

The human visual system may retain ancestral mechanisms uniquely dedicated to the rapid
detection of immediate and specific threats (eg spiders and snakes) that persistently …