In this project, we investigate how physical salience influences the attentional guidance of talk-relevant and task-irrelevant stimuli.
Visual attention is influenced by the characteristics of the stimuli (bottom-up), their task relevance (top-down), and prior experience (e.g., selection history and learning). …
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During search for shape-singleton targets that stand out by their shape among more shape-homogenous distractors, distractors carrying a color associated with reward can capture …
In three spatial cueing experiments, we investigated whether a negative search criterion (i.e., a task-relevant feature that negatively defines the target) can guide visual …
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Physical salience and search goals are the main factors guiding attention during visual search. However, salience alone is typically not sufficient to capture attention. For …
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In three experiments, we used attention capture effects (of cues) to investigate the emergence of human’s top-down attentional control settings after learning versus verbally …
Research suggests that active feature suppression could contribute to visual selective attention. For instance, knowing what not to look for benefits visual search, as …
In this project, we investigate whether selection history influences attentional guidance. So far, we have focused on the potential influence of previously learned and selected …
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We investigated whether basic shapes can guide visual attention in a goal-directed manner. Participants searched for one specific target shape among different basic shapes (square, …
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We investigated whether basic shapes can guide visual attention in a goal-directed manner. Participants searched for one specific target shape among different basic shapes (square, …