What to expect where and when: How statistical learning drives visual selection

J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts, D van Moorselaar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022‏ - cell.com
While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

The past, present, and future of selection history

BA Anderson, H Kim, AJ Kim, MR Liao… - Neuroscience & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

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 …

Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological bulletin, 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

Visual selection: Usually fast and automatic; seldom slow and volitional

J Theeuwes - Journal of cognition, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recently it was argued that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, lingering
biases of selection history play a major role in visual selection (Awh, Belopolsky & …

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 …

Goal-driven, stimulus-driven, and history-driven selection

J Theeuwes - Current opinion in psychology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Lingering biases of previous selection episodes play a major role in attentional
selection.•Statistical learning of the environmental regularities biases attentional …

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 …

Getting rid of visual distractors: The why, when, how, and where

L Chelazzi, F Marini, D Pascucci, M Turatto - Current opinion in psychology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
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 …

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 …