Monetary value enhances visual perception and attention and boosts activity in the primary
visual cortex, however, it is still unclear whether monetary value can modulate the conscious …

Focusing attention on a target creates a center‐surround inhibition such that distractors
located close to the target do not capture attention. Recent research showed that a distractor …

Practice improves perception and enhances neural representations of trained visual stimuli,
a phenomenon known as visual perceptual learning (VPL). While attention to task-relevant …

Cross-modal interactions are very common in perception. An important feature of many
perceptual stimuli is their reward-predicting properties, the utilization of which is essential for …

We have an incomplete picture of how the brain links object representations to reward value,
and how this information is stored and later retrieved. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), medial …

Many studies have revealed that reward-associated features capture attention.
Neurophysiological evidence further suggests that this reward-driven attention effect …

Motivation and attention constitute major determinants of human perception and action.
Nonetheless, it remains a matter of debate whether motivation effects on the visual cortex …

Adolescents strive for peer approval, and an increased sensitivity to peers' opinions is
normative. However, among vulnerable adolescents, peer evaluation can be detrimental …

It has been observed that one's Behavioral Approach System (BAS) can have an effect on
decision-making under uncertainty, although the results have been mixed. To discern the …

Activity in midbrain dopamine neurons modulates the release of dopamine in terminal
structures including the striatum, and controls reward-dependent valuation and choice. This …