When one encounters a novel stimulus this sets off a cascade of brain responses, activating
several neuromodulatory systems. As a consequence novelty has a wide range of effects on …

Everyday visual experience involves making implicit predictions, as revealed by our surprise
when something disturbs our expectations. Many theories of vision have been premised on …

The relationship between working memory and selective attention has traditionally been
discussed as operating in one direction: Attention filters incoming information, allowing only …

Irrelevant salient distractors often capture attention, but given a sufficiently specific search
template, these salient items no longer capture attention. In the present experiments, we …

Previous findings on adult second-language (L2) learners showed systematic phonetic
changes in their production of the native language (L1) starting in the first weeks of L2 …

Scientific concepts are defined by metaphors. These metaphors determine what attention is
and what count as adequate explanations of the phenomenon. The authors analyze these …

The authors investigated whether emotional pictorial stimuli are especially likely to be
processed in parafoveal vision. Pairs of emotional and neutral visual scenes were presented …

Abstract Wang, Cavanagh, and Green (1994) demonstrated a pop-out effect in searching for
an unfamiliar target among familiar distractors (U—F search) and argued for the importance …

Visual attention is deployed through visual scenes to find behaviorally relevant targets. This
attentional deployment—or attentional control—can be based on either stimulus factors …

Eight experiments examined the conditions under which a color singleton that is presented
for the 1st time without prior announcement captures attention. The main hypothesis is that …