Estimating reward contingencies and allocating attentional resources to a subset of relevant
information are the most important contributors to increasing adaptability of an organism …

Humans survive in environments that contain a vast quantity and variety of visual
information. All items of perceived visual information must be represented within a limited …

Theories of reinforcement learning and approach behavior suggest that reward can increase
the perceptual salience of environmental stimuli, ensuring that potential predictors of …

Previous research has shown that attentional selection is affected by reward contingencies:
previously selected and rewarded stimuli continue to capture attention even if the reward …

We investigated how the brain integrates motivational and attentional signals by using a
neuroimaging paradigm that provided separate estimates for transient cue-and target …

The contribution of rewarded actions to automatic attentional selection remains obscure. We
hypothesized that some forms of automatic orienting, such as object-based selection, can be …

Abstract Objects play an important role in guiding spatial attention through a cluttered visual
environment. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to …

Visual attentional selection is influenced by the value of objects. Previous studies have
demonstrated that reward-associated items lead to rapid distraction and associated …

Human information processing is limited by attentional resources. That is, via attentional
mechanisms, humans select a limited amount of sensory input to process while other …

The contribution of object-based attentional guidance to visual processing is widely
accepted, and recent models of attentional selection now include both space-and object …