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 …

Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

Researchers have long debated how salient-but-irrelevant features guide visual attention.
Pure stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically capture attention …

Distractor suppression refers to the ability to filter out distracting and task-irrelevant
information. Distractor suppression is essential for survival and considered a key aspect of …

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 …

Previous research indicates that prior information about a target feature, such as its color,
can speed search. Can search also be speeded by knowing what a target will not look like …

In principle, selective attention is the net result of target selection and distractor suppression.
The way in which both mechanisms are implemented neurally has remained contested …

A growing body of research demonstrates that distracting inputs can be proactively
suppressed via spatial cues, nonspatial cues, or experience, which are governed by more …

Decades of research in attention have shown that salient distractors (eg, a color singleton)
tend to capture attention. However, in most studies, singleton distractors are just as likely to …

Ignoring salient distracting information is paramount to efficiently guiding attention during
visual search. Learning to reject or suppress these strong sources of distraction leads to …