Attentional priming has a dominating influence on vision, speeding visual search, releasing
items from crowding, reducing masking effects, and during free-choice, primed targets are …

The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

Theories of attention commonly refer to the “attentional template” as the collection of features
in working memory that represent the target of visual search. Many models of attention …

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

Visual search is facilitated when the target is repeatedly encountered at a fixed position
within an invariant (vs. randomly variable) distractor layout—that is, when the layout is …

Observers can learn the likely locations of salient distractors in visual search, reducing their
potential to cause interference. Although there is agreement that this involves positional …

Visual search is faster when a fixed target location is paired with a spatially invariant (vs.
randomly changing) distractor configuration, thus indicating that repeated contexts are …

Prior knowledge about an upcoming target can bias attention and facilitate visual search
performance. However, whether knowledge about distractors can likewise enhance search …

Repeatedly presenting a target within a stable search array facilitates visual search, an
effect termed contextual cueing. Previous solo-performance studies have shown that …

Research on attentional control within real‐world contexts has become substantially more
feasible and thus frequent over the past decade. However, relatively little is known regarding …