What to expect when you are not expecting it: How implicit regularities drive attentional selection

Project Information

LEARNATTEND

Grant agreement ID: 833029

DOI

10.3030/833029

EC signature date 21 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 875,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 875,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING VU
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (41)

Proactive distractor suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search

Author(s): Changrun Huang, Ana Vilotijević, Jan Theeuwes, Mieke Donk
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 28/3, 2021, Page(s) 918-927, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01891-3

What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes, Louisa Bogaerts, Dirk van Moorselaar
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 26, 2023, Page(s) 860-872, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.06.001

Spatial suppression due to statistical regularities in a visual detection task

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 84, 2022, Page(s) 450-458, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02330-0

The Attentional Window, Search Difficulty and Search Modes: A Reply to Commentaries on Theeuwes (2023)

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 305, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/joc.305

Statistical learning of distractor locations is dependent on task context

Author(s): Jasper de Waard, Dirk van Moorselaar, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 11234, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38261-z

Attentional suppression in time and space.

Author(s): Zhenzhen Xu, Sander A. Los, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 47, 2024, Page(s) 1056-1062, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000925

Response to commentaries to Luck et al. (2021). Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Visual Cognition, Issue 29, 2021, Page(s) 637-643, ISSN 1350-6285
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2021.1978672

Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate

Author(s): Steven J. Luck, Nicholas Gaspelin, Charles L. Folk, Roger W. Remington, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Visual Cognition, Issue 29/1, 2021, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1350-6285
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2020.1848949

Attentional suppression is in place before display onset

Author(s): Changrun Huang, Mieke Donk, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 85, 2023, Page(s) 1012-1020, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02704-6

Statistical learning of motor preparation.

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes, Changrun Huang, Christian Frings, Dirk van Moorselaar
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 152-162, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001174

Secondary capture: Salience information persistently drives attentional selection.

Author(s): Dock H. Duncan, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 942-951, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001223

Electrophysiological Indices of Distractor Processing in Visual Search Are Shaped by Target Expectations

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Changrun Huang, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 1032-1044, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01986

Does it help to expect distraction? Attentional capture is attenuated by high distractor frequency but not by trial-to-trial predictability.

Author(s): Louisa Bogaerts, Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 246-261, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000986

Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression

Author(s): Malte Wöstmann, Viola S. Störmer, Jonas Obleser, Douglas A. Addleman, ‪Søren K. Andersen, Nicholas Gaspelin, Joy J. Geng, Steven J. Luck, MaryAnn P. Noonan, Heleen A. Slagter, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, Issue 213, 2022, Page(s) 102269, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102269

Long-term memory retrieval bypasses working memory

Author(s): Baiwei Liu, Xinyu Li, Jan Theeuwes, Benchi Wang
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 261, 2024, Page(s) 119513, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119513

Reliability of individual differences in distractor suppression driven by statistical learning

Author(s): Yavor Ivanov, Jan Theeuwes, Louisa Bogaerts
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 2437-2451, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02157-7

Statistical learning of across-trial regularities during serial search.

Author(s): Ai-Su Li, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 262-274, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000987

Statistical distractor learning modulates perceptual sensitivity

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 21, 2021, Page(s) 3, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.12.3

Proactive enhancement and suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search.

Author(s): Changrun Huang, Mieke Donk, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 443-457, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001002

Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography

Author(s): Dock H. Duncan, Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 14, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40405-8

Learning in Visual Regions as Support for the Bias in Future Value-Driven Choice

Author(s): Sara Jahfari, Jan Theeuwes, Tomas Knapen
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, Issue 30/4, 2019, Page(s) 2005-2018, ISSN 1047-3211
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz218

Surprisingly inflexible: Statistically learned suppression of distractors generalizes across contexts

Author(s): Jasper de Waard, Louisa Bogaerts, Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 84, 2023, Page(s) 459-473, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02387-x

Learning to suppress a location is configuration-dependent

Author(s): Ya Gao, Jasper de Waard, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 85, 2023, Page(s) 2170-2177, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02732-2

Statistical Learning Within Objects

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Psychological Science, Issue 34, 2023, Page(s) 501-511, ISSN 0956-7976
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09567976231154804

Statistical regularities across trials bias attentional selection.

Author(s): Ai-Su Li, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 46/8, 2020, Page(s) 860-870, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000753

The Electrophysiological Markers of Statistically Learned Attentional Enhancement: Evidence for a Saliency-based Mechanism

Author(s): Dock H. Duncan, Jan Theeuwes, Dirk van Moorselaar
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 2110-2125, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02066

Finding counterfeited banknotes: the roles of vision and touch

Author(s): Frank van der Horst, Joshua Snell, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Issue 5/1, 2020, ISSN 2365-7464
Publisher: SpringerOpen
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-020-00236-3

No evidence for spatial suppression due to across-trial distractor learning in visual search

Author(s): Ai-Su Li, Louisa Bogaerts, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 85, 2023, Page(s) 1088-1105, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-023-02667-8

Learning to suppress a location does not depend on knowing which location

Author(s): Ya Gao, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 84, 2022, Page(s) 1087-1097, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02404-z

Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Issue 6/1, 2021, ISSN 2365-7464
Publisher: SpringerOpen
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00281-6

A saliency-specific and dimension-independent mechanism of distractor suppression

Author(s): Dongyu Gong, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 83/1, 2021, Page(s) 292-307, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02142-8

Statistical learning affects the time courses of salience-driven and goal-driven selection.

Author(s): Changrun Huang, Jan Theeuwes, Mieke Donk
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 47/1, 2021, Page(s) 121-133, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000781

The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We Avoid Salient Distractors and When Not?

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 35, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: ubiquity press
DOI: 10.5334/joc.251

Spatial transfer of object-based statistical learning

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 86, 2024, Page(s) 768-775, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-024-02852-3

Enhancing banknote authentication by guiding attention to security features and manipulating prevalence expectancy

Author(s): Frank van der Horst, Joshua Snell, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2365-7464
Publisher: Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00341-x

Statistical learning in the absence of explicit top-down attention

Author(s): Dock Duncan, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Cortex, Issue 131, 2020, Page(s) 54-65, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.07.006

Statistical learning of spatiotemporal regularities dynamically guides visual attention across space

Author(s): Zhenzhen Xu, Jan Theeuwes, Sander A. Los
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 85, 2023, Page(s) 1054-1072, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-022-02573-5

Distractor suppression leads to reduced flanker interference

Author(s): Yavor Ivanov, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 83/2, 2021, Page(s) 624-636, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02159-z

Self-Explaining Roads: Effects of road design on speed choice

Author(s): Jan Theeuwes, Joshua Snell, Trisha Koning, Berno Bucker
Published in: Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Issue 102, 2024, Page(s) 335-361, ISSN 1369-8478
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2024.03.007

Transfer of statistical learning between tasks.

Author(s): Dirk van Moorselaar, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 740-751, ISSN 0096-1523
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001216

Independent effects of statistical learning and top-down attention

Author(s): Ya Gao, Jan Theeuwes
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 82/8, 2020, Page(s) 3895-3906, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02115-x