Theeuwes Lab Publications

2024

Walker, F., Bucker, B., Snell, J., Anderson, N., Pilz, Z., Houwaart, K., Van den Brink, R., Kintz, P., De Vries, I. & Theeuwes, J. (2024). 
Age-adapted painting descriptions change the viewing behavior of young visitors to the Rijksmuseum.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 22880.

Duncan, D. H., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Secondary capture: Salience information persistently drives attentional selection.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(9), 942.

Heeman, J., Theeuwes, J., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2024).
The adaptive global effect: Luminance contrast modulates the global effect zone.
Vision Research, 222, 108454.

Engelbert, L. H., Van Elk, M., Theeuwes, J., & van Vugt, M. (2024).
The Role of Charismatic Leadership Tactics and Inconsistent Messages in Processing and Evaluating Climate Change Information.
Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 121431.

Li, A. S., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Attending is not enough: Responding to targets is needed for across-trial statistical learning.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86(6), 1963-1973.

Wang, B., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Salient distractor processing: inhibition following attentional capture.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Transfer of statistical learning between tasks.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Pearson, D., Chong, A., Chow, J. Y., Garner, K. G., Theeuwes, J., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2024).
Uncertainty-modulated attentional capture: Outcome variance increases attentional priority.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Theeuwes, J., Snell, J., Koning, T., & Bucker, B. (2024).
Self-Explaining Roads: Effects of road design on speed choice.
Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 102, 335-361.

Lin, R., Meng, X., Chen, F., Li, X., Jensen, O., Theeuwes, J., & Wang, B. (2024).
Neural evidence for attentional capture by salient distractors.
Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13.

van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Spatial transfer of object-based statistical learning.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-8.

Theeuwes, J., Huang, C., Frings, C., & van Moorselaar, D. (2024).
Statistical learning of motor preparation.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(2), 152.

Huang, C., van Moorselaar, D., Foster, J. J., Donk, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Pinging the Hidden Attentional Priority Map: Suppression Needs Attention.
bioRxiv, 2024-04.

Richter, D., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Proactive distractor suppression in early visual cortex.
bioRxiv, 2024-04.

Ilksoy, Y. A., van Moorselaar, D., Wang, B., Los, S. A., & Theeuwes, J. (2024).
Distractor suppression operates exclusively in retinotopic coordinates.
bioRxiv, 2024-02.

Li, A. S., Theeuwes, J., & van Moorselaar, D. (2024).
Neural representations of predicted events: Evidence from time-resolved EEG decoding.
bioRxiv, 2024-01.

Liesefeld, H. R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J. J., Kerzel, D., Schall, J. D., ... & Wolfe, J. (2024).
Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-28.

2023

Duncan, D. H., Theeuwes, J., & van Moorselaar, D. (2023).
The Electrophysiological Markers of Statistically Learned Attentional Enhancement: Evidence for a Saliency-based Mechanism.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(12).

Duncan, D. H., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography.
Nature Communications, 14(1).

Ivanov, Y., Theeuwes, J., & Bogaerts, L. (2023).
Reliability of individual differences in distractor suppression driven by statistical learning.
Behavior Research Methods, 1-15.

de Waard, J., van Moorselaar, D., Bogaerts, L., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Statistical learning of distractor locations is dependent on task context.
Scientific Reports, 13(1).

van Moorselaar, D., Huang, C., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Electrophysiological Indices of Distractor Processing in Visual Search Are Shaped by Target Expectations.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35(6).

Gao, Y., de Waard, J., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Learning to suppress a location is configuration-dependent.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-8.

Snell, J., Mirault, J., Theeuwes, J., & Grainger, J. (2023).
Readers use word length information to determine word order.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Huang, C., Donk, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Attentional suppression is in place before display onset.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(4).

van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
Statistical Learning Within Objects.
Psychological Science, 09567976231154804.

Theeuwes, J. & Bucker, B.
Ontwerp een geloofwaardige rijsnelheid
Verkeerskunde, 1-74

Li, A. S., Bogaerts, L., & Theeuwes, J. (2023).
No evidence for spatial suppression due to across-trial distractor learning in visual search.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-18.

2022

Engelbert, L. H., van Elk, M., Kandrik, M., Theeuwes, J., & van Vugt, M. (2022).
The effect of charismatic leaders on followers’ memory, error detection, persuasion and prosocial behavior: A cognitive science approach.
The Leadership Quarterly, 101656

Liu, B., Li, X., Theeuwes, J., & Wang, B. (2022).
Long-term memory retrieval bypasses working memory.
NeuroImage, 261, 119513.

Xu, Z., Theeuwes, J., & Los, S. A. (2022)
Statistical learning of spatiotemporal regularities dynamically guides visual attention across space.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-19.

Theeuwes, J., Bogaerts, L., & van Moorselaar, D. (2022).
What to expect where and when: how statistical learning drives visual selection.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., Wang, B., & Theeuwes, J. (2022).
Spatial enhancement due to statistical learning tracks the estimated spatial probability.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-10.

Wöstmann, M., Störmer, V. S., Obleser, J., Andersen, S. K., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J. J., ... & Theeuwes, J.
Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression.
Progress in Neurobiology, 102269.

Huang, C., Donk, M., & Theeuwes, J.
Proactive enhancement and suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Li, A. S., Bogaerts, L., & Theeuwes, J.
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities during serial search.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(3), 262.

Gao, Y., & Theeuwes, J.
Learning to suppress a location does not depend on knowing which location.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Bogaerts, L., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J.
Does it help to expect distraction? Attentional capture is attenuated by high distractor frequency but not by trial-to-trial predictability.
Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance.

2021

de Waard, J., Bogaerts, L., van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J.
Surprisingly inflexible: Statistically learned suppression of distractors generalizes across contexts.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Bogaerts, L., Siegelman, N., Christiansen, M. H., & Frost, R.
Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’?
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J.
Statistical distractor learning modulates perceptual sensitivity.
Journal of vision

van Moorselaar, D., & Theeuwes, J.
Spatial suppression due to statistical regularities in a visual detection task.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Bogaerts, L., Siegelman, N., & Frost, R.
Statistical learning and language impairments: toward more precise theoretical accounts.
Perspectives on Psychological science

Bogaerts, L., Frost, R., & Christiansen, M. H.
Integrating statistical learning into cognitive science.
Journal of Memory and Language

Xu, Z., Los, S. A., & Theeuwes, J.
Attentional suppression in time and space.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Imants, P., Theeuwes, J., Bronkhorst, A. W., & Martens, M. H.
Effect of multiple traffic information sources on route choice: A driving simulator study.
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

van der Horst, F., Snell, J., & Theeuwes, J.
Enhancing banknote authentication by guiding attention to security features and prevalence expectancy.

Munneke, J., Fahrenfort, J. J., Sutterer, D., Theeuwes, J., & Awh, E.
Multivariate analysis of EEG activity indexes contingent attentional capture.
NeuroImage

Theeuwes, J.
Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?
Cognitive research: principles and implications

Wang, L., Wang, B., & Theeuwes, J.
Across-trial spatial suppression in visual search.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Huang, C., Vilotijević, A., Theeuwes, J., & Donk, M.
Proactive distractor suppression elicited by statistical regularities in visual search.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Ivanov, Y., & Theeuwes, J.
Distractor suppression leads to reduced flanker interference.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Luck, S. J., Gaspelin, N., Folk, C. L., Remington, R. W., & Theeuwes, J.
Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate.
Visual Cognition

Gong, D., & Theeuwes, J.
A saliency-specific and dimension-independent mechanism of distractor suppression.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Lin, R., Li, X., Wang, B., & Theeuwes, J.
Spatial suppression due to statistical learning tracks the estimated spatial probability.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

2020

Gao, Y., & Theeuwes, J.
Learning to suppress a distractor is not affected by working memory load.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Failing, M., & Theeuwes, J.
More capture, more suppression: Distractor suppression due to statistical regularities is determined by the magnitude of attentional capture.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Kong S, Li X, Wang B, Theeuwes J
Proactively location-based suppression elicited by statistical learning.
PLOS ONE

Li, A.-S., & Theeuwes, J.
Statistical regularities across trials bias attentional selection.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Snell, J., & Theeuwes, J.
A story about statistical learning in a story: Regularities impact eye movements during book reading.
Journal of Memory and Language

Failing, M. & Theeuwes, J.
Attentional Selection: Top-Down, Bottom-Up and History-Based Biases.
Book: Elements in Perception. Cambridge University Press

Duncan, D. & Theeuwes, J.
Statistical learning in the absence of explicit top-down attention.
Cortex

Gao, Y., & Theeuwes, J.
Independent effects of statistical learning and top-down attention.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Gao, Y., & Theeuwes, J.
Learning to suppress a distractor is not affected by working memory load.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Huang, C., Theeuwes, J., & Donk, M.
Statistical learning affects the time courses of salience-driven and goal-driven selection.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Wang, B., & Theeuwes, J.
Implicit attentional biases in a changing environment.
Acta Psychologica