How does the visual system represent continuity in the constantly changing visual input? A
recent proposal is that vision is serially dependent: Stimuli seen a moment ago influence …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Distractions are ubiquitous in our sensory environments. How do we keep them from
capturing attention? Existing research has focused primarily on mechanisms of strategic …

Our ability to control our attention to focus on goal-relevant information is critical for
functioning in daily life. In addition to the typical attentional control driven by target …

Protecting working-memory content from distracting external sensory inputs and intervening
tasks is an ubiquitous demand in daily life. Here, we ask whether and how temporal …

Negative templates are based on foreknowledge of distractor features and can lead to more
efficient visual search at the group level. However, large individual differences exist in the …

Habituation represents a well-established form of learning in various neuroscience domains.
However, cognitive psychologists working in the field of visual attention have largely …