ReviewAttention, perception & psychophysics2023
Negative and positive templates: Two forms of cued attentional control.
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- Effort expectation and strategic cue use in visual search.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Signal suppression 2.0: An updated account of attentional capture and suppression.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Restoring a top-down control assumption: Salience effects in working memory are overcome with time.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- Harsh Parenting and Problematic Smartphone Use: The Chain Mediating Effects of Attention to Negative Information and Social Anxiety.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
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- The Role of Mindfulness Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Why are some individuals better at using negative attentional templates to suppress distractors? Exploration of interindividual differences in cognitive control efficiency.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2024Article
- Similar Quality of Visual Working Memory Representations between Negative and Positive Attentional Templates.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Within-Subject Manipulations Of Proactive Control Do Not Change Negative Templates Benefits: Exploring the Effect Of Reward On Negative And Positive Cues.Visual cognition · 2024Article
- Neurophysiological Measures of Proactive and Reactive Control in Negative Template Use.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Multisensory Enhancement of Cognitive Control over Working Memory Capture of Attention in Children with ADHD.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Our ability to control our attention to focus on goal-relevant information is critical for functioning in daily life. In addition to the typical attentional control driven by target enhancement described in most theories of attention, recent research has focused on our ability to use information about distractions maintained in working memory to direct our attention away from known distractors. Using these negative templates can improve the efficiency of attention, much in the same way as enhancing information matching search targets. However, these effects only occur for specific tasks or in specific circumstances. In this review, I will focus on our emerging understanding of the relationship between distractor ignoring from negative templates and target enhancement from positive templates. I will also highlight key remaining questions for further study.
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