Great expectations: Advance knowledge and distractibility

Our visual environment is complex and contains both target and
distractor objects. To navigate effectively, an ability to ignore visual
distractors is as important as being able to focus on target
information. While there has been a lot of research studying target
processing, understanding of how distractors are processed is less
clear. The goal of this research was to investigate how distractors are
processed. In part I, distraction was examined as a function of spatial
information available in the display. The motivation for this comparison