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[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 45 (10) of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (see record 2019-57445-001). In the article, Figure 1 was an older version and has been updated. All versions of this article have been corrected.] We are constantly extracting regularities from the visual environment to optimize attentional orienting. Here we examine the phenomenon that recurrent presentation of distractors in a specific location leads to its attentional suppression. Specifically, we address the question whether suppression is specific to the spatial regularities of distractors or also extends to visual features bearing statistical regularities. To that end, we used a visual search task with two high-probability locations, each showing one of two distractor types more often than the other. At these high-probability locations, target processing was impaired and …