“…This form of attentional control enables us to prioritise incoming signals on the basis of preexisting knowledge, goals, and expectations. Indeed, detecting and responding to information from a scene is facilitated by prior knowledge of important characteristics, such as spatial location (Dosher & Lu, 2000;Posner, Snyder, Davidson, 1980), features (Egeth, Virzi, & Garbart, 1984), or category (Peelen, FeiFei, & Kastner, 2009). Alternatively, bottom-up, or exogenous, stimulus-driven selection, reflects the control of attention by the physical properties of a stimulus.…”