In visual search tasks, observers look for targets among distractors. In the lab, this often
takes the form of multiple searches for a simple shape that may or may not be present …

The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

Working memory (WM) and attention have been studied as separate cognitive constructs,
although it has long been acknowledged that attention plays an important role in controlling …

Priority maps are winner‐take‐all neural mechanisms thought to guide the allocation of
covert and overt attention. Here, we go beyond this standard definition and argue that …

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 …

Animals, including humans, engage in many forms of foraging behavior in which resources
are collected from the world. This paper examines human foraging in a visual search …

Recent studies have revealed that the deployment of attention can be biased by the content
of visual working memory (VWM), but that stored memories do not always interact with …

In order to efficiently process incoming visual information, selective attention acts as a filter
that enhances relevant and suppresses irrelevant information. In this study, we used an …

Representations held in working memory are crucial in guiding human attention in a goal-
directed fashion. Currently, it is debated whether only a single representation or several of …

This study reexamines the issue of how much of working memory storage is central, or
shared across sensory modalities and verbal and nonverbal codes, and how much is …