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 …

Prominent models of attentional control assert a dichotomy between top-down and bottom-
up control, with the former determined by current selection goals and the latter determined …

The present study investigated whether statistical regularities can influence visual selection.
We used the classic additional singleton task in which participants search for a salient shape …

Visual input often arrives in a noisy and discontinuous stream, owing to head and eye
movements, occlusion, lighting changes, and many other factors. Yet the physical world is …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

The world tends to be stable from moment to moment, leading to strong serial correlations in
natural scenes. As similar stimuli usually require similar behavioural responses, it is highly …

Global context plays an important, but poorly understood, role in visual tasks. This study
demonstrates that a robust memory for visual context exists to guide spatial attention. Global …

From moment to moment, we perceive objects in the world as continuous despite
fluctuations in their image properties due to factors like occlusion, visual noise, and eye …

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 …

The cognitive system has the capacity to learn and make use of environmental regularities–
known as statistical learning (SL), including for the implicit guidance of attention. For …