@article{Baluch_Itti10pone,
  author = {F. Baluch and L. Itti},
  title = {Training top-down attention improves performance on a triple conjunction search task},
  journal = {PLoS One},
  month = {Feb},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {5},
  issue = {2},
  pages = {e9127},
  abstract = {Training has been shown to improve perceptual performance on limited sets of stimuli. However, whether training can generally improve top-down biasing of visual search in a target-nonspecific manner remains unknown. We trained subjects over 10 days on a visual search task, challenging them with a novel target (top-down goal) on every trial, while bottom-up uncertainty (distribution of distractors) remained constant. Subjects became experts at this task, with performance increased two-fold, decreased fixation duration, and stronger tendency to guide gaze towards items with color and spatial frequency (but not necessarily orientation) that resembled the target, suggesting improved general top-down biasing of search.},
  type = {mod;bu;psy;eye},
  file = {http://ilab.usc.edu/publications/doc/Baluch_Itti10pone.pdf},
  if = {2009 impact factor: 4.351}
}