Complex background information slows down parallel search efficiency by reducing the strength of interitem interactions.

In the laboratory, visual search is often studied using uniform backgrounds. This contrasts with search in daily life, where potential search items appear against more complex backgrounds. In the present study, we examined the effects of background complexity on a parallel visual search under conditions where objects are easily segregated from the background.

Irrelevant features of distractors in intervening visual search tasks cause active visual working memory interference - the more difficult the search task, the more interference it causes.

Visual working memory (VWM) content disrupts visual search performance when there is a singleton in the search array that is similar to the content in VWM, even when this singleton is task irrelevant. Typically, the memory-similar singleton captures attention, which results in slower search performance for memory-similar conditions compared to conditions where memory-similar content is absent. Recently, it has also been shown that VWM content may be affected when memory-similar stimuli are processed.

Correction to: A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search.

During production of the article, Figure 4 was incorrectly used twice in the initial article, so it appeared both as Figure 4 and Figure 5 in the article.

A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search.

Feature Integration Theory (FIT) set out the groundwork for much of the work in visual cognition since its publication. One of the most important legacies of this theory has been the emphasis on feature-specific processing. Nowadays, visual features are thought of as a sort of currency of visual attention (e.

Fixed-target efficient search has logarithmic efficiency with and without eye movements.

Stage 1 processing in visual search (e.g., efficient search) has long been thought to be unaffected by factors such as set size or lure-distractor similarity (or at least to be only minimally affected).

Salience network connectivity in the insula is associated with individual differences in interoceptive accuracy.

The insula and the anterior cingulate cortex are core brain regions that anchor the salience network, one of several large-scale intrinsic functional connectivity networks that have been derived consistently using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While several studies have shown that the insula and anterior cingulate cortex play important roles in interoceptive awareness, no study to date has examined the association between intrinsic salience network connectivity and interoceptive awareness. In this study, we sought to test this idea in 26 healthy young participants who underwent a resting-state fMRI scan and a heartbeat counting task outside the scanner in the same session.

Learning psychological research and statistical concepts using retrieval-based practice.

Research methods and statistics are an indispensable subject in the undergraduate psychology curriculum, but there are challenges associated with engaging students in it, such as making learning durable. Here we hypothesized that retrieval-based learning promotes long-term retention of statistical knowledge in psychology. Participants either studied the educational material in four consecutive periods, or studied it just once and practiced retrieving the information in the subsequent three periods, and then took a final test through which their learning was assessed.