Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet
skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things …

Visual attention unfolds across space and time to prioritize a subset of incoming visual
information. Distinct in key ways from spatial attention, temporal attention is a growing …

The control of attention was long held to reflect the influence of two competing mechanisms
of assigning priority, one goal-directed and the other stimulus-driven. Learning-dependent …

Adaptive behaviors require the ability to resolve conflicting information caused by the
processing of incompatible sensory inputs. Prominent theories of attention have posited that …

Selective attention gates access to conscious awareness, resulting in surprising failures to
notice clearly visible but unattended objects ('inattentional blindness'). Here, we …

For decades, researchers have assumed that shifts of covert attention mandatorily occur
prior to eye movements to improve perceptual processing of objects before they are fixated …

When observers have to identify an object embedded in a rapid serial visual presentation
(RSVP) stream, they often erroneously report the identity of a distractor instead of the target …

Four experiments investigated the attentional white bear (AWB) effect, in which attention
increases for an upcoming distractor, and identified two key factors that interact to determine …

It is often claimed that probabilistic expectations affect visual perception directly, without
mediation by selective attention. However, these claims have been disputed, as effects of …

Previous studies have shown that illusory conjunction can emerge for both spatially and
temporally proximal objects. However, the mechanisms involved in binding in the temporal …