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

There has been a long-lasting debate about whether salient stimuli, such as uniquely
colored objects, have the ability to automatically distract us. To resolve this debate, it has …

For over 25 years, researchers have debated whether physically salient stimuli capture
attention in an automatic manner, independent of the observer's goals, or whether the …

Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on
our ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor …

We review a series of studies exploring distractor suppression. It is often assumed that
preparatory distractor suppression is controlled via top-down mechanisms of attention akin …

Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control
strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …

Healthy individuals often exhibit prioritized processing of aversive information, as
manifested in enhanced orientation of attention to threatening stimuli compared with neutral …

A rapidly growing body of research indicates that inhibition of distracting information may not
be under flexible, top-down control, but instead heavily relies on expectations derived from …

Predictions based on learned statistical regularities in the visual world have been shown to
facilitate attention and goal-directed behavior by sharpening the sensory representation of …

Sometimes, salient-but-irrelevant objects (distractors) presented concurrently with a search
target cannot be ignored and attention is involuntarily allocated towards the distractor first …