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 …

Highlights•Distractor interference can be reduced via various cognitive-control
strategies.•Down-weighting of signals from the distractor dimension is particularly …

Animals, including humans, engage in many forms of foraging behavior in which resources
are collected from the world. This paper examines human foraging in a visual search …

A core distinction in Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory (FIT) is in that between
parallel and serial search. We outline this dichotomy and selectively review the reasons why …

Abstract Objects that stand out from the environment tend to be of behavioral relevance, and
the visual system is tuned to preferably process these salient objects by allocating focused …

It is debated whether people can actively search for more than one object or whether this
results in switch costs. Using a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm, we revealed a …

Selection of a feature singleton target in visual search tasks, eg, a red target among green
distractors, is very fast—as if the target “popped out” of the display. Interestingly, reaction …

According to action control theories, responding to a stimulus leads to the integration of
response and stimulus features (eg, color, shape, etc.) into event files. Upon feature …

Previous work on attentional capture has shown the attentional system to be quite flexible in
the stimulus properties it can be set to respond to. Several different attentional “modes” have …

Search performance is sequence-dependent. A specific finding observed in compound-
search tasks consists of an interaction between cross-trial sequences (repetition vs. change) …