Unplanned optional stopping rules have been criticized for inflating Type I error rates under
the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) paradigm. Despite these criticisms, this …

Three experiments examined whether salient color singleton distractors automatically
interfere with the detection singleton form targets in visual search (eg, J. Theeuwes, 1992), or …

The notion of a saliency-based processing architecture [1] underlying human vision is
central to a number of current theories of visual selective attention [eg, 2] . On this view, focal-…

Background Based on introspectionist, semantic, and psychophysiological experimental
frameworks, it has long been assumed that all affective states derive from two independent …

Targets in a visual search task are detected faster if they appear in a probable target region
as compared to a less probable target region, an effect which has been termed “probability …

Abstract Abstract: Abstract Historically, visual search models were mainly evaluated based
on their account of mean reaction times (RTs) and accuracy data. More recently, Wolfe, …

Visual search for feature singletons is slowed when a task-irrelevant, but more salient
distracter singleton is concurrently presented. While there is a consensus that this distracter …

Visual search is central to the investigation of selective visual attention. Classical theories
propose that items are identified by serially deploying focal attention to their locations. While …

Shielding visual search against interference from salient distractors becomes more efficient
over time for display regions where distractors appear more frequently, rather than only …

Visual context information can guide attention in demanding (ie, inefficient) search tasks.
When participants are repeatedly presented with identically arranged (‘repeated’) displays, …