The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Prominent models of attentional control assert a dichotomy between top-down and bottom-
up control, with the former determined by current selection goals and the latter determined …

Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

Attention selects stimuli for cognitive processing, and the mechanisms that underlie the
process of attentional selection have been a major topic of psychological research for over …

What we pay attention to is influenced by current task goals (goal-directed attention)[1, 2],
the physical salience of stimuli (stimulus-driven attention)[3–5], and selection history [6–12] …

Highlights•Lingering biases of previous selection episodes play a major role in attentional
selection.•Statistical learning of the environmental regularities biases attentional …

There is growing consensus that reward plays an important role in the control of attention.
Until recently, reward was thought to influence attention indirectly by modulating task …

Attention selects stimuli for perceptual and cognitive processing according to an adaptive
selection schedule. It has long been known that attention selects stimuli that are task …

Attention researchers have long debated the roles of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms
in controlling attention. Theeuwes (2018) has argued that that top-down control is much less …

Recent evidence has suggested that reward modulates bottom-up and top-down attentional
selection and that this effect persists within the same task even when reward is no longer …