Highlights•Associative reward learning biases attention in favor of reward-predictive
stimuli.•Reward-evoked dopamine release gives rise to plasticity in the visual system.•Such …

Attention is automatically drawn to stimulus features previously associated with reward, a
phenomenon referred to as value-driven attentional capture. To date, value-driven …

Reward history, physical salience, and task relevance all influence the degree to which a
stimulus competes for attention, reflecting value-driven, stimulus-driven, and goal-contingent …

Through associative reward learning, arbitrary cues acquire the ability to automatically
capture visual attention. Previous studies have examined the neural correlates of value …

Goal-directed and stimulus-driven factors determine attentional priority through a well
defined dorsal frontal-parietal and ventral temporal-parietal network of brain regions …

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 is the mechanism by which important or salient stimuli are selected for perceptual
and cognitive processing. Which stimuli are attended has important implications for effective …

Reward learning gives rise to strong attentional biases. Stimuli previously associated with
reward automatically capture visual attention regardless of intention [1–12]. Dopamine …

Reward-related mesolimbic dopamine steers animal behavior, creating automatic approach
toward reward-associated objects and avoidance of objects unlikely to be beneficial …

Normative theories posit that value-based decision-making is context independent.
However, decisions between two high-value options can be suboptimally biased by the …