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 …

Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories
typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning …

Findings from an increasingly large number of studies have been used to argue that
attentional capture can be dependent on the learned value of a stimulus, or value-driven …

People have a strong tendency to attend to reward cues, even if these cues are irrelevant to
their current goal or their current task. When reward cues are goal-irrelevant, their presence …

Paying attention to stimuli that predict a reward outcome is important for an organism to
survive and thrive. When visual stimuli are associated with tangible, extrinsic rewards such …

Everyday behavior frequently involves encounters with multiple objects that compete for
selection. For example, driving a car requires constant shifts of attention between oncoming …

Rewards affect the deployment of visual attention in various situations. Evidence suggests
that the stimulus associated with reward involuntary captures attention (value-driven …

It is now well established that the visual attention system is shaped by reward learning.
When visual features are associated with a reward outcome, they acquire high priority and …