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The control of attention in visual search: Cognitive and neural mechanisms

Martin EimerDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 2437-2463 | Received 24 Mar 2015, Accepted 30 May 2015, Published online: 28 Jul 2015

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Nick Berggren, Michael Jenkins, Cody W. McCants & Martin Eimer. (2017) The spatially global control of attentional target selection in visual search. Visual Cognition 25:1-3, pages 196-214.
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Doug J. K. Barrett & Oliver Zobay. (2019) Concurrent evaluation of independently cued features during perceptual decisions and saccadic targeting in visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82:3, pages 966-984.
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Christina B. Reimer & Torsten Schubert. (2020) Visual and central attention share a capacity limitation when the demands for serial item selection in visual search are high. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82:2, pages 715-728.
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Nick Berggren & Martin Eimer. (2020) Attentional Access to Multiple Target Objects in Visual Search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 32:2, pages 283-300.
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Johan Hulleman, Kristofer Lund & Paul A. Skarratt. (2019) Medium versus difficult visual search: How a quantitative change in the functional visual field leads to a qualitative difference in performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82:1, pages 118-139.
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Tanya Wen, John Duncan & Daniel J. Mitchell. (2019) The time-course of component processes of selective attention. NeuroImage 199, pages 396-407.
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Tobias Katus & Martin Eimer. (2019) The N2cc component as an electrophysiological marker of space‐based and feature‐based attentional target selection processes in touch. Psychophysiology 56:9.
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Christina B. Reimer & Torsten Schubert. (2017) More insight into the interplay of response selection and visual attention in dual-tasks: masked visual search and response selection are performed in parallel. Psychological Research 83:3, pages 459-475.
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Felix Bacigalupo & Steven J. Luck. (2019) Lateralized Suppression of Alpha-Band EEG Activity As a Mechanism of Target Processing. The Journal of Neuroscience 39:5, pages 900-917.
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Mathew Hunter, Ben Godde & Bettina Olk. (2018) Effects of absolute luminance and luminance contrast on visual search in low mesopic environments. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 80:5, pages 1265-1277.
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Michael Jenkins, Anna Grubert & Martin Eimer. (2018) Category-based attentional guidance can operate in parallel for multiple target objects. Biological Psychology 135, pages 211-219.
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Iris Wiegand, Natan Napiórkowski, Thomas Töllner, Anders Petersen, Thomas Habekost, Hermann J. Müller & Kathrin Finke. (2018) Event-related Electroencephalographic Lateralizations Mark Individual Differences in Spatial and Nonspatial Visual Selection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30:4, pages 482-497.
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Nick Berggren & Martin Eimer. (2018) Feature-guided attentional capture cannot be prevented by spatial filtering. Biological Psychology 134, pages 1-8.
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Michael Jenkins, Anna Grubert & Martin Eimer. (2017) Target objects defined by a conjunction of colour and shape can be selected independently and in parallel. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 79:8, pages 2310-2326.
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Anna Grubert, Johannes Fahrenfort, Christian N.L. Olivers & Martin Eimer. (2017) Rapid top-down control over template-guided attention shifts to multiple objects. NeuroImage 146, pages 843-858.
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Martin Eimer. (2017) Why the item will remain the unit of attentional selection in visual search. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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Johan Hulleman & Christian N. L. Olivers. (2015) The impending demise of the item in visual search. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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Anna Grubert, Nancy B. Carlisle & Martin Eimer. (2016) The Control of Single-color and Multiple-color Visual Search by Attentional Templates in Working Memory and in Long-term Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:12, pages 1947-1963.
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Anna Grubert & Martin Eimer. (2016) Rapid attentional selection processes operate independently and in parallel for multiple targets. Biological Psychology 121, pages 99-108.
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Nick Berggren & Martin Eimer. (2016) The control of attentional target selection in a colour/colour conjunction task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 78:8, pages 2383-2396.
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Rebecca Nako, Tim J. Smith & Martin Eimer. (2016) The Role of Color in Search Templates for Real-world Target Objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:11, pages 1714-1727.
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Michael Jenkins, Anna Grubert & Martin Eimer. (2016) Rapid Parallel Attentional Selection Can Be Controlled by Shape and Alphanumerical Category. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:11, pages 1672-1687.
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Anna Grubert & Martin Eimer. (2016) The Speed of Serial Attention Shifts in Visual Search: Evidence from the N2pc Component. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:2, pages 319-332.
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