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 …

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 …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

Attention selects which aspects of sensory input are brought to awareness. To promote
survival and well-being, attention prioritizes stimuli both voluntarily, according to context …

Visual selective attention is the brain function that modulates ongoing processing of retinal
input in order for selected representations to gain privileged access to perceptual …

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 …

A neural theory of visual attention (NTVA) is presented. NTVA is a neural interpretation of C.
Bundesen's (1990) theory of visual attention (TVA). In NTVA, visual processing capacity is …

Visual attention is captured by physically salient stimuli (termed salience-based attentional
capture), and by otherwise task-irrelevant stimuli that contain goal-related features (termed …

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes
the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and …

Efficient goal-directed behavior in a crowded world is crucially mediated by visual selective
attention (VSA), which regulates deployment of cognitive resources toward selected …