Attention & context
Attention & context

Familiar environments help the brain focus on what matters and ignore what doesn't. Our research explores how spatial regularities, contextual cueing, and cross-modal signals shape selective attention in complex scenes.

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Distractor suppression in the early visual cortex
It has been observed that humans can implicitly learn and ignore a salient distractor when it frequently appears in a specific location. However, neural mechanisms…
Local vs. Global by Midjourney
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Does distractor frequency in one region affect distractor suppression in another region?
When visual search involves salient but irrelevant distractions, their interference can be reduced if they appear in a display region where such distractions have occurred…
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Contextual cueing in co-active visual search: Joint action allows acquisition of task-irrelevant context 
Repeatedly presenting a target within a stable search array facilitates visual search, an effect termed contextual cueing. Previous solo-performance studies have shown that successful acquisition of…
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Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks
Abstract Visual search is speeded when a target item is positioned consistently within an invariant (repeatedly encountered) configuration of distractor items (“contextual cueing”). Contextual cueing…
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Personality Traits, Loneliness, and Affect Among Boxers
Chen, X., Qiu, N., Chen, C., & Zhai, L. (2021). Personality Traits, Loneliness, and Affect Among Boxers. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 609153. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.609153 Abstract This study aimed…
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Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in visual search involves regional signal suppression in early visual cortex
Zhang, B., Weidner, R., Allenmark, F., Bertleff, S., Fink, G. R., Shi, Z., & Müller, H. J. (2021). Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in…
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When visual distractors predict tactile search: The temporal profile of cross-modal spatial learning
Chen, S., Shi, Z., Müller, H. J., & Geyer, T. (2021). When visual distractors predict tactile search: The temporal profile of cross-modal spatial learning. Journal of…
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Multisensory visuo-tactile context learning enhances the guidance of unisensory visual search
Chen, S., Shi, Z., Müller, H. J., & Geyer, T. (2021). Multisensory visuo-tactile context learning enhances the guidance of unisensory visual search. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 9439. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88946-6…
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Probability cueing of singleton-distractor locations in visual search
Observers can learn the likely locations of salient distractors in visual search, reducing their potential to capture attention (Ferrante et al., 2018; Sauter et al.,…
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Inter-trial effects in visual search
Many previous studies on visual search have reported inter-trial effects, that is, observers respond faster when some target property, such as a defining feature or…
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