Visual search: How do we find what we are looking for?

JM Wolfe - Annual review of vision science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
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 relationship between spatial attention and eye movements

AR Hunt, J Reuther, MD Hilchey, RM Klein - Processes of visuospatial …, 2019 - Springer
The nature of the relationship between spatial attention and eye movements has been the
subject of intense debate for more than 40 years. Two ideas have dominated this debate …

[HTML][HTML] Reward grabs the eye: Oculomotor capture by rewarding stimuli

J Theeuwes, AV Belopolsky - Vision research, 2012 - Elsevier
It is well known that salient yet task irrelevant stimuli may capture our eyes independent of
our goals and intentions. The present study shows that a task-irrelevant stimulus that is …

Counter-regulation triggered by emotions: Positive/negative affective states elicit opposite valence biases in affective processing

S Schwager, K Rothermund - Cognition & Emotion, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigated whether counter-regulation in affective processing is
triggered by emotions. Automatic attention allocation to valent stimuli was measured in the …

Visual attention is not deployed at the endpoint of averaging saccades

L Wollenberg, H Deubel, M Szinte - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The premotor theory of attention postulates that spatial attention arises from the activation of
saccade areas and that the deployment of attention is the consequence of motor …

[HTML][HTML] Oculomotor preparation as a rehearsal mechanism in spatial working memory

DG Pearson, K Ball, DT Smith - Cognition, 2014 - Elsevier
There is little consensus regarding the specific processes responsible for encoding,
maintenance, and retrieval of information in visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM). One …

Potential threat attracts attention and interferes with voluntary saccades.

LJ Schmidt, AV Belopolsky, J Theeuwes - Emotion, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Several studies have shown that threatening stimuli are prioritized by the visual system. In
the present study we investigated whether a stimulus associated with a threat of electrical …

[HTML][HTML] Covert attention beyond the range of eye-movements: Evidence for a dissociation between exogenous and endogenous orienting

S Casteau, DT Smith - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
The relationship between covert shift of attention and the oculomotor system has been the
subject of numerous studies. A widely held view, known as Premotor Theory, is that covert …

Perisaccadic updating of visual representations and attentional states: linking behavior and neurophysiology

AC Marino, JA Mazer - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
During natural vision, saccadic eye movements lead to frequent retinal image changes that
result in different neuronal subpopulations representing the same visual feature across …

Common priority map for selection history, reward and emotion in the oculomotor system

AV Belopolsky - Perception, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In natural scenes, many objects compete for visual selection. However, it is not always clear
why certain objects win this competition. I will demonstrate that the eye movement system …