...Victoria Halewicz; Daniel J. Simons; Julia Haaf Selective attention can enhance some aspects of our visual world while filtering others from awareness. Given our limited cognitive resources, such filtering is essential when viewing complex scenes, but it also applies to simple scenes. Eitam...

..., particularly for emotional cues relevant for adaptive behavior in complex environments. 09 01 2019 02 04 2019 attention emotion EEG ssVEP spatiotemporal analysis source localization Bayes factors The prioritization of emotional stimuli is pivotal for fast behavioral reactions...

...-driven attention (for a review see Anderson, 2016 ) provides a well-established cognitive framework that can explain reward associations, including those with one’s smartphone. As people, by nature, are reward-seeking organisms ( Braver et al., 2014 ), attention prioritizes information that signals...

..., provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . near hand effect attention embodiment hand posture cueing effect Two primary theories have been advanced to explain NHEs. The original theory, sometimes called the attentional...

... by the attention set that we create for the attended and ignored objects. It remains unclear, though, how attention sets are formed and structured. Do they enhance features of attended objects (“white”) and suppress features of ignored objects (“black”), or do they distinguish objects based on relations...

... of attention. Critically, we assessed whether distance moderates the relationship between age and noticing. We replicated both age and distance effects, but found no age by distance interaction. These findings disconfirm a plausible explanation for age differences in noticing (restricted field of view), while...