“…This is supported by studies reporting that older adults have more difficulties in locating a target among distracters than young adults (Hommel, Li, & Li, 2004;Kramer, Hahn, Irwin, & Theeuwes, 2000;Phillips & Takeda, 2010). In contrast, other studies found that cueing the target location reduces the attentional capture of distracters to a similar extent in young and older adults (Gottlob & Madden, 1998;Hartley, Kieley, & Slabach, 1990;Haupt, Napiórkowski, Sorg, Müller, & Finke, 2019;Madden, Whiting, Cabeza, & Huettel, 2004). The latter evidence offers a more nuanced perspective by highlighting that older adults are impaired when relying solely on bottom-up attention, or when exceeding the limit to recruit additional topdown resources to compensate for declines in sensory regions (Cabeza, 2002;Grady et al, 1994;Madden et al, 2007;Park & Reuter-Lorenz, 2009;Reuter-Lorenz & Cappell, 2008;Reuter-Lorenz & Lustig, 2005;Stern, 2002;Talsma, Kok, & Ridderinkhof, 2006;Whiting, Madden, & Babcock, 2007).…”