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 …

Although humans can voluntarily direct their attention to particular stimuli, attention can at
times be involuntarily allocated to stimuli and such attentional capture can result in …

The control of attention was long held to reflect the influence of two competing mechanisms
of assigning priority, one goal-directed and the other stimulus-driven. Learning-dependent …

Reward learning is key to survival for individuals. Attention plays an important role in the
rapid recognition of reward cues and establishment of reward memories. Reward history …

The sense of owning a body (ownership) and controlling its actions (agency) are two main
pillars of bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Although studies suggest that BSC signals and …

Attentional selection and the decision of where to make an eye-movement are driven by
various factors such as the representation of salience, task goal, and stimulus relevance, as …

Reward learning has been shown to habitually guide overt spatial attention to specific
regions of a scene. However, the neural mechanisms that support this bias are unknown. In …

Attentional capture by previously reward-associated stimuli has predominantly been
measured in the visual domain. Recently, behavioral studies of value-driven attention have …

Introduction Attentional bias to reward-associated stimuli can occur even when it interferes
with goal-driven behavior. One theory posits that dopaminergic signaling in the striatum …

Attentional biases toward or away from emotionally evocative stimuli have been well
documented and are known to be clinically relevant, making it important to understand how …