Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

The scientific community has witnessed growing concern about the high rate of false
positives and unreliable results within the psychological literature, but the harmful impact of …

Externally directed cognition (EDC) involves attending to stimuli in the external environment,
whereas internally directed cognition (IDC) involves attending internally to thoughts …

Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Impaired procedural learning has been suggested as a possible cause of developmental
dyslexia (DD) and specific language impairment (SLI). This study examined the relationship …

Experimental psychologists often neglect the poor psychometric properties of the dependent
measures collected in their studies. In particular, a low reliability of measures can have …

Context can drastically influence responses to environmental stimuli. For example, a
gunshot should provoke a different response at a public park than a shooting range. Little is …

Many studies claim that visual regularities can be learned unconsciously and without explicit
awareness. For example in the contextual cueing paradigm, studies often make claims using …

An ever increasing amount of research in the fields of developmental psychology and adult
cognitive neuroscience explores attentional control as a driver of visual short-term and …

Attentional processes play a crucial role in prioritizing information for further processing and
they therefore sit at the interface between internal goals and the challenges presented by …