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View article: Statistical learning in the auditory modality: Identities are all you need
Statistical learning in the auditory modality: Identities are all you need Open
Finding a behaviorally relevant target among non-targets is facilitated by prior knowledge about the statistical structure of the environment. While this contextual-cueing effect is well established in vision, it is less clear whether and …
View article: Salient distractors are rapidly rejected during inefficient visual search
Salient distractors are rapidly rejected during inefficient visual search Open
To navigate the ever-changing and information-overladen environment it is crucial to selectively process relevant information and ignore distraction. Recently, the salient-signal-suppression hypothesis has stimulated much research and theo…
View article: Attentional Boost for Visual Working Memory: Concurrent Target Detection Improves Change Detection but Interferes with Continuous Estimation
Attentional Boost for Visual Working Memory: Concurrent Target Detection Improves Change Detection but Interferes with Continuous Estimation Open
Detecting a target stimulus in one task can improve the memory of materials presented concurrently for another task. This attentional boost effect has been tested predominantly with delayed recognition or recall as the memory task, which r…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996)
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996) Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996).
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996).
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996).
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment…
View article: Learning and transfer of response–effect relations
Learning and transfer of response–effect relations Open
Acting means changing the environment according to one’s own goals, and this often requires bodily movements as responses. How these responses are selected is a central question in contemporary cognitive psychology. The ideomotor principle…
View article: One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research Open
On the centenary of the first human EEG recording, more than 500 experts reflect on the impact that this discovery has had on our understanding of the brain and behaviour. We document their priorities and call for collective action focusin…
View article: Tracking the Misallocation and Reallocation of Spatial Attention toward Auditory Stimuli
Tracking the Misallocation and Reallocation of Spatial Attention toward Auditory Stimuli Open
Completely ignoring a salient distractor presented concurrently with a target is difficult, and sometimes attention is involuntarily attracted to the distractor's location (attentional capture). Employing the N2ac component as a marker of …
View article: More liberal and less sensitive: Individual differences in visual working memory capacity predicts the metacognitive assessment of representational accuracy
More liberal and less sensitive: Individual differences in visual working memory capacity predicts the metacognitive assessment of representational accuracy Open
Visual working memory (VWM) allows us to actively represent task-relevant visual information so that we can use it to guide our behavior. However, not only is its capacity limited, but its representational accuracy also varies. Thus, to av…
View article: A Tentative Roadmap for Consensus-Building Processes
A Tentative Roadmap for Consensus-Building Processes Open
Like all other branches of science, psychology is constantly faced with the task of establishing some level of preliminary consensus over term use, methods, and findings, while at the same time leaving open the door to challenging and revi…
View article: Attentional Boost in Visual Working Memory? Concurrent Target Detection Enhances the Precision but Reduces the Retention Probability
Attentional Boost in Visual Working Memory? Concurrent Target Detection Enhances the Precision but Reduces the Retention Probability Open
Dual-tasking causes mutual interference between the two tasks. As an exception to this rule, performance in a memory task improves when participants perform a secondary task in which they detect the presence of a memory-task-unrelated targ…
View article: A tentative roadmap for consensus building processes
A tentative roadmap for consensus building processes Open
Like all other branches of science, psychology is constantly faced with the task of establishing some level of preliminary consensus over term use, methods, and findings, while at the same time leaving open the door to challenging and revi…
View article: Toward Sound Localization Testing in Virtual Reality to Aid in the Screening of Auditory Processing Disorders
Toward Sound Localization Testing in Virtual Reality to Aid in the Screening of Auditory Processing Disorders Open
Sound localization testing is key for comprehensive hearing evaluations, particularly in cases of suspected auditory processing disorders. However, sound localization is not commonly assessed in clinical practice, likely due to the complex…
View article: Tracking the misallocation and reallocation of spatial attention towards auditory stimuli
Tracking the misallocation and reallocation of spatial attention towards auditory stimuli Open
Completely ignoring a salient distractor presented concurrently with a target is difficult and sometimes attention is involuntarily attracted to the distractor’s location ( attentional capture ). Employing the N2ac component as a marker of…
View article: Auditory distractors are processed but do not interfere with visual search of any difficulty
Auditory distractors are processed but do not interfere with visual search of any difficulty Open
People often report being distracted during their visual tasks, such as monitoring the road ahead, by task-irrelevant sounds, for example, a baby crying on the backseat. When we first tried to study the effect of auditory distraction on vi…
View article: Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction
Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction Open
Hypothesis-driven research rests on clearly articulated scientific theories. The building blocks for communicating these theories are scientific terms. Obviously, communication – and thus, scientific progress – is hampered if the meaning o…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996).
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as Experiment…
View article: A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996).
A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Open
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was in no small part driven by the observation of an N2pc elicited by an isolated relevant target object, which was reported as E…
View article: The Distractor Positivity Component and the Inhibition of Distracting Stimuli
The Distractor Positivity Component and the Inhibition of Distracting Stimuli Open
There has been a long-lasting debate about whether salient stimuli, such as uniquely colored objects, have the ability to automatically distract us. To resolve this debate, it has been suggested that salient stimuli do attract attention bu…
View article: Target Salience and Search Modes: A Commentary on Theeuwes (2023)
Target Salience and Search Modes: A Commentary on Theeuwes (2023) Open
In a healthy scientific community, theories influence each other and promising ideas are embraced by competing theoretical camps. We are therefore pleased that Theeuwes (2023) now agrees with core points of our theoretical position (Liesef…
View article: The consequences of effects of saliency are long-lived (and stubborn)
The consequences of effects of saliency are long-lived (and stubborn) Open
In an influential paper, Donk and van Zoest (2008; https://doi.org/d3cn5x) concluded that information on saliency dissipates within a few hundred milliseconds after onset of a stimulus array. Recently, we have shown that saliency has massi…
View article: Examining the effect of saliency on EEG markers of attention allocation and maintenance in a visual-working-memory task.
Examining the effect of saliency on EEG markers of attention allocation and maintenance in a visual-working-memory task. Open
While limitations on visual working memory (VWM) are well established, less is known about what it takes for stimuli to enter this precious space. Using dense displays adapted from the visual-search literature, it was recently demonstrated…
View article: Visual pop-out search is robust to auditory distraction
Visual pop-out search is robust to auditory distraction Open
Interference by salient-but-irrelevant visual stimuli (distractors) in a visual pop-out-search task is well established. The present study examined the generalizability of this classic effect to auditory distractors. Participants’ task was…
View article: The Surprising Robustness of Visual Search Against Concurrent Auditory Distraction
The Surprising Robustness of Visual Search Against Concurrent Auditory Distraction Open
People often complain about distraction by irrelevant sounds that reportedly hampers performance on concurrent visual tasks demanding the allocation of focused attention towards relevant stimuli, such as processing street signs during driv…
View article: Effects of salience are long-lived and stubborn
Effects of salience are long-lived and stubborn Open
Salience is a core determinant of attentional processing. Although information on salience has been shown to dissipate within a few hundred milliseconds, we recently observed massive effects of salience on the delayed recall from visual wo…