Article
Psychology, Experimental
Ziyao Zhang, Nancy B. Carlisle
Summary: People can quickly learn and transfer spatial biases in visual search tasks. However, these biases may not be compatible with frequently changing goals. We propose a flexible goal-specific probability cueing mechanism to address this issue.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Zhenzhen Xu, Sander A. Los, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: Participants can learn to suppress specific locations of distracting objects during particular moments in time, suggesting that the spatial priority map of attentional selection is dynamically adjusted throughout the trial.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Dirk Kerzel, Stanislas Huynh Cong
Summary: The study investigated the attentional suppression of distractors sharing target features and found that invalid cues appearing at a high-frequency cue position produced less interference compared to those at a low-frequency cue position. Additionally, target processing was impaired at the high-frequency cue position, providing strong evidence for attentional suppression of the cued location. Overall, the findings suggest that feature-based attention may guide attentional suppression just as it guides attentional enhancement.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Laurent Gregoire, Mark K. Britton, Brian A. Anderson
Summary: This study examined the ability to suppress attentional bias towards reward or threat stimuli and found that it can be actively suppressed with sufficient motivation.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Martin Eimer
Summary: Luck et al. propose that proactive suppression may help resolve the attentional capture debate, but point out that this approach may not fully address the issue. They argue that while salient stimuli can trigger priority signals, suppression may not necessarily prevent attentional capture. They highlight potential reasons and general limitations in proactive inhibitory control.
Article
Psychology
Carola Dolci, C. Nico Boehler, Elisa Santandrea, Anneleen Dewulf, Suliann Ben-Hamed, Emiliano Macaluso, Leonardo Chelazzi, Einat Rashal
Summary: The present study investigates how the competition between visual elements is resolved through top-down and/or statistical learning attentional control mechanisms. The results suggest that the winner element is selected either by one prevailing AC mechanism or by the joint activity of both mechanisms. The study provides evidence that top-down control and statistical learning work together during target selection, with the latter being reduced when reliable top-down guidance is present.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Cagdas Bas, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis
Summary: This paper proposes an end-to-end, top-down and bottom-up attentional deep multiple instance learning approach for still image action recognition. The approach does not rely on attribute or object labels, and can successfully select action-related image regions and create fine-grained pixel-level action masks.
SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Anthony M. Harris, Claire Bradley, Sera Yijing Yoo, Jason B. Mattingley
Summary: Spatial cues that mismatch the colour of a subsequent target cause slower response, and the source of this effect is currently unknown. Two possible sources are attentional signal suppression and object-file updating. By correlating brain activity with the magnitude of the effect, researchers found a negative correlation, contradicting the suppression account and supporting the object-file updating account.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Dirk Kerzel, Chiara Balbiani, Sarah Rosa, Stanislas Huynh Cong
Summary: The study found that in visual search tasks, attentional suppression can reduce interference when a salient distractor appears more frequently at a certain position, but interference may increase on low-probability positions.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Marlene Forstinger, Ulrich Ansorge
Summary: Recent experiments have shown that during the search for a target, attention is guided by both positive and negative features. Positive features capture attention, while negative features are suppressed. This suggests that both capture and suppression play a role in guiding visual attention.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Francis Berthias, Hayden A. Thurman, Gayani Wijegunawardena, Haifan Wu, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Ole N. Jensen
Summary: Advances in proteomics have shown the ubiquity and biological importance of diverse proteoforms. The ability to separate and analyze intact isomeric proteoforms is crucial for understanding their functions. A novel technique using trapped IMS was demonstrated to achieve baseline resolution of isomeric proteoforms, opening new avenues in proteomics and epigenetics.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Changrun Huang, Mieke Donk, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: Recent studies have shown that observers can learn to suppress a location that is most likely to contain a distractor. This study investigates whether the statistically learned suppression is implemented before, at, or after the expected display onset. The results provide evidence that statistical learning affects the attentional distribution in space, with proactive implementation of spatial suppression prior to display onset.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Markus Gruener, Florian Goller, Ulrich Ansorge
Summary: Visual attention is influenced by stimuli characteristics, task relevance, and prior experience, but the interaction between learning, selection history, and top-down attentional guidance is not fully understood. Through experiments combining trial-and-error learning and spatial cueing, it was found that previously learned target-defining features quickly lose their influence on attention when the target feature changes. It was also discovered that knowledge of target-defining features and their use as search criterion is critical for attentional guidance.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elisa N. Falk, Kevin J. Norman, Yury Garkun, Michael P. Demars, Susanna Im, Giulia Taccheri, Jenna Short, Keaven Caro, Sarah E. McCraney, Christina Cho, Milo R. Smith, Hung-Mo Lin, Hiroyuki Koike, Julia Bateh, Priscilla Maccario, Leah Waltrip, Meaghan Janis, Hirofumi Morishita
Summary: This study reveals that dynamic regulation of the nicotinic cholinergic system plays a key role in the maturation of attentional circuit, particularly in the development of top-down frontal neurons. Following adolescence, the decrease in nicotinic tone by upregulation of Lynxl promotes the establishment of attentional behavior in adulthood. Disruption of this key maturational process is observed in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome, but can be rescued by suppressing nicotinic tone through the introduction of Lynxl in top-down projections.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Samuel A. Miller, Kevin Jeanne Dit Fouque, Eldon R. Hard, Aaron T. Balana, Desmond Kaplan, Valery G. Voinov, Mark E. Ridgeway, Melvin A. Park, Gordon A. Anderson, Matthew R. Pratt, Francisco Fernandez-Lima
Summary: This study highlights the potential of using fast and high-resolution trapped ion mobility spectrometry combined with mass spectrometry to characterize alpha-synuclein positional glycoforms, offering insights for guiding therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative disorders.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Michel Failing, Tobias Feldmann-Wustefeld, Benchi Wang, Christian Olivers, Jan Theeuwes
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2019)
Article
Psychology
Ai-Su Li, Jan Theeuwes
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2020)
Article
Psychology
Xinyu Li, Zijun Xiong, Jan Theeuwes, Benchi Wang
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2020)
Article
Psychology
Changrun Huang, Jan Theeuwes, Mieke Donk
Summary: The study found that the statistical regularity of the distractor location affects visual selection early on, modulating the time courses associated with both salience-driven and goal-driven selection. These results suggest that statistical learning induces a continuous bias in visual selection beyond salience-driven and goal-driven control.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Jasper de Waard, Louisa Bogaerts, Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: The study reveals that participants learned to suppress high-probability distractor locations even without conscious awareness of the spatial regularities. However, the suppression effects were found to be independent of context, showing a de-prioritization of high-probability locations that remained consistent regardless of the context.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Changrun Huang, Mieke Donk, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: This study investigated the impact of simultaneous statistical learning of target and distractor regularities on attentional selection. The results showed that observers are able to learn the regularities present in the search display and optimize their selection priorities accordingly.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Ai-Su Li, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: The study investigates implicit learning across trials, showing that participants are unable to learn across-trial statistical regularities during slow and serial search due to excessive noise. However, when conditions are created to reduce noise and facilitate learning, the target-association biases learned during feature search persist even when there is much noise during serial search.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Jan Theeuwes, Louisa Bogaerts, Dirk van Moorselaar
Summary: Through visual statistical learning, attentional priority settings can optimally adjust to regularities in the environment, without intention and conscious awareness.
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Changrun Huang, Mieke Donk, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: Recent studies have shown that observers can learn to suppress a location that is most likely to contain a distractor. This study investigates whether the statistically learned suppression is implemented before, at, or after the expected display onset. The results provide evidence that statistical learning affects the attentional distribution in space, with proactive implementation of spatial suppression prior to display onset.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dock H. Duncan, Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: Past experiences can influence attentional priority, and this study shows that these biases can be visualized through neural responses. Recent work has emphasized the role of past experiences on spatial priority, but little is known about the neural substrates of history-mediated attentional priority. Using a task that induces statistical learning, the authors demonstrate that this latent attentional priority map can be visualized using a 'pinging' technique in conjunction with multivariate pattern analyses during the intertrial period.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jasper de Waard, Dirk van Moorselaar, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes
Summary: This study demonstrates that humans can learn to suppress distractors in visual areas through statistical learning. Unlike previous studies, this research manipulated task context to study context-dependent learning. Participants were able to suppress distractor locations in a context-dependent manner, but suppression from previous task contexts persisted unless a new high-probability location was introduced.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Experimental
Jan Theeuwes
Summary: "Self-explaining roads" is a novel concept in road design that emphasizes designing roads in a way that users can immediately understand how to navigate and anticipate road conditions. This notion is firmly grounded in the theoretical framework of statistical learning, subjective road categorization, and associated expectations. The paper discusses successful implementations and recent developments globally.
COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Changrun Huang, Ana Vilotijevic, Jan Theeuwes, Mieke Donk
Summary: The study explored whether distractors presented more frequently at one location are subject to proactive spatial suppression. The results indicate that through statistical learning, locations likely to contain distractors are proactively suppressed.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jan Theeuwes
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)