Theeuwes Lab Publications

2025

J Yao, J Snell, J Theeuwes
Age-related preservation of statistical learning in distractor suppression.
Psychology and Aging

AS Li, J Theeuwes, Y Zhang
Priority states modulate attentional interference from visual working memory representations: Electrophysiological evidence
Biological Psychology, 109080

YA Ilksoy, D van Moorselaar, SA Los, J Theeuwes
Object-centered spatial learning in dynamic contexts: History-driven distractor suppression and target enhancement
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Y Zhou, L Wang, X Li, J Theeuwes, B Wang
Presearch Attentional Focus Supports Learned Suppression in Visual Search
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-10

DH Duncan, D van Moorselaar, J Theeuwes
Visual statistical learning requires attention
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-14

HR Liesefeld, D Lamy, J Theeuwes, HJ Müller
Handling visual distraction–An introduction and overview
Visual Cognition 32 (9-10), 701-707

M Oxner, D van Moorselaar, MM Müller, J Theeuwes
A flash in the pan? Distractor suppression cannot be inferred from the early lateralized positivity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-19

DH Duncan, N Forschack, D van Moorselaar, MM Müller, J Theeuwes
Learning modulates early encephalographic responses to distracting stimuli: a combined SSVEP and ERP study
Journal of Neuroscience 45 (21)

D Richter, D van Moorselaar, J Theeuwes
Proactive distractor suppression in early visual cortex
Elife 13, RP101733

P Schmalbrock, J Theeuwes, C Frings
Habituation in Predictability-Modulations of Stimulus-Response Binding
Journal of Cognition 8 (1), 27

C Huang, D van Moorselaar, J Foster, M Donk, J Theeuwes
Neural mechanisms of learned suppression uncovered by probing the hidden attentional priority map
eLife 13, RP98304

D van Moorselaar, N Wang, J Theeuwes
Differential Neural Mechanisms Underlying Inhibition of Color and Dynamic Motion Distractors
Journal of cognitive neuroscience 37 (3), 543-554

J Theeuwes, J van Doorn, D van Moorselaar
Suppression of fear-conditioned stimuli
Emotion

J Theeuwes, D van Moorselaar
Learning to suppress what I fear
Emotion

Z Xu, J Theeuwes, SA Los
Statistical learning of spatiotemporal target regularities in the absence of saliency
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 87 (2), 431-444

J Theeuwes
Attentional capture and control
Annual Review of Psychology 76

J de Waard, J Theeuwes, L Bogaerts
Taking time: Auditory statistical learning benefits from distributed exposure
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-10

J Heeman, BJ White, S Van der Stigchel, J Theeuwes, L Itti, DP Munoz
Saliency response in superior colliculus at the future saccade goal predicts fixation duration during free viewing of dynamic scenes
Journal of Neuroscience 45 (3)

LH Engelbert, M van Elk, J Theeuwes, M van Vugt
The influence of charismatic leadership on followers’ attentional processes
The Leadership Quarterly, 101854

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