Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

Most visual advertisements are designed to attract attention, often by inducing a pleasant
impression in human observers. Accordingly, results from brain imaging studies show that …

The well-known “cocktail party effect” refers to incidental detection of salient words, such as
one's own-name, in supposedly unattended speech. However, empirical investigation of the …

The authors suggest that mere attention increases the perceived severity of environmental
risks because attention increases the fear and distinctiveness of attended risks. In …

Under some circumstances, moving objects capture attention. Whether a change in the
direction of a moving object attracts attention is still unexplored. We investigated this using a …

The current study investigated whether capture of the eyes by a salient onset distractor and
the disengagement of the eyes from that distractor are driven by the same or by different …

Previous studies have confirmed that visual onsets are very powerful in attracting our gaze.
The reflexive saccades triggered by sudden onsets have a high adaptive value because …

Many contend that driving an automobile involves multiple-object tracking. At this point, no
one has tested this idea, and it is unclear how multiple-object tracking would coordinate with …

The role of top-down control in visual search has been a subject of much debate. Recent
research has focused on whether attentional and oculomotor capture by irrelevant salient …

Professional tasks such as air traffic control and search-and-rescue often involve visual
scanning. A novel technology known as gaze-sharing is intended to help people to scan in …