The role of inhibition in avoiding distraction by salient stimuli

N Gaspelin, SJ Luck - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Researchers have long debated whether salient stimuli can involuntarily 'capture'visual
attention. We review here evidence for a recently discovered inhibitory mechanism that may …

Inhibition in selective attention

D Van Moorselaar, HA Slagter - … of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate

SJ Luck, N Gaspelin, CL Folk, RW Remington… - Visual …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The attentional capture debate: When can we avoid salient distractors and when not?

J Theeuwes - Journal of Cognition, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There has been a long-standing debate concerning whether we are able to resist attention
capture by salient distractors. The so-called “signal suppression hypothesis” of Gaspelin and …

Combined electrophysiological and behavioral evidence for the suppression of salient distractors

N Gaspelin, SJ Luck - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
Researchers have long debated how salient-but-irrelevant features guide visual attention.
Pure stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically capture attention …

Attentional suppression of highly salient color singletons.

BT Stilwell, N Gaspelin - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
A longstanding debate in visual attention research has been whether physically salient
objects have an automatic power to capture attention. Recent evidence has supported a …

A review of gaze entropy as a measure of visual scanning efficiency

B Shiferaw, L Downey, D Crewther - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
While the concept of entropy has been applied to gaze analysis, it is unclear what aspects of
visual scanning it measures. In this review, we first outline gaze control as a complex system …

Inhibition as a potential resolution to the attentional capture debate

N Gaspelin, SJ Luck - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
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The distractor positivity component and the inhibition of distracting stimuli

N Gaspelin, D Lamy, HE Egeth, HR Liesefeld… - Journal of cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
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 …

Anticipatory distractor suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search

B Wang, J van Driel, E Ort, J Theeuwes - Journal of cognitive …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Salient yet irrelevant objects often capture our attention and interfere with our daily tasks.
Distraction by salient objects can be reduced by suppressing the location where they are …