ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Template-to-distractor distinctiveness regulates visual search efficiency.
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- Investigation of Redundant Visual Patterns to Improve Usability of Labels.Human factors · 2026Article
- Older adults are impaired by distractors presented during working memory encoding.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Looking into Working Memory to Verify Potential Search Targets.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The precision of attention selection during reward learning influences the mechanisms of value-driven attention.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Zooming In and Out: Selective Attention Modulates Color Signals in Early Visual Cortex for Narrow and Broad Ranges of Task-Relevant Features.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Statistical learning re-shapes the center-surround inhibition of the visuo-spatial attentional focus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Review
- Division and spreading of attention across color.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Attention deployment in natural scenes: Higher-order scene statistics rather than semantics modulate the N2pc component.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Distracted by Previous Experience: Integrating Selection History, Current Task Demands and Saliency in an Algorithmic Model.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
- Representational structures as a unifying framework for attention.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
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- Searching near and far: The attentional template incorporates viewing distance.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2024Article
- Task-adaptive changes to the target template in response to distractor context: Separability versus similarity.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Detecting multiple simultaneous and sequential feature changes.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- Multifaceted consequences of visual distraction during natural behaviour.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Prefrontal Cortex Codes Representations of Target Identity and Feature Uncertainty.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Expected distractor context biases the attentional template for target shapes.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
- Suppression of distracting inputs by visual-spatial cues is driven by anticipatory alpha activity.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Spatial memory distortions for the shapes of walked paths occur in violation of physically experienced geometry.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
All models of attention include the concept of an attentional template (or a target or search template). The template is conceptualized as target information held in memory that is used for prioritizing sensory processing and determining if an object matches the target. It is frequently assumed that the template contains a veridical copy of the target. However, we review recent evidence showing that the template encodes a version of the target that is adapted to the current context (e.g. distractors, task, etc.); information held within the template may include only a subset of target features, real world knowledge, pre-existing perceptual biases, or even be a distorted version of the veridical target. We argue that the template contents are customized in order to maximize the ability to prioritize information that distinguishes targets from distractors. We refer to this as template-to-distractor distinctiveness and hypothesize that it contributes to visual search efficiency by exaggerating target-to-distractor dissimilarity.
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