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 …

Recent research has demonstrated that observers can learn to prevent attentional capture
by physically salient stimuli. One critical question is how observers learn to avoid capture …

Attention is an important resource for prioritizing information in working memory (WM), and it
can be deployed both strategically and automatically. Most research investigating the …

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 …

Previously reward-associated stimuli persistently capture attention. We attempted to
extinguish this attentional bias through a reversal learning procedure where the high-value …

In this opinionated review, I draw attention to some of the contributions reinforcement
learning can make to questions in the philosophy of mind. In particular, I highlight …

Visual attention can be tuned to specific features to aid in visual search. The way in which
these search strategies are established and maintained is flexible, reflecting goal-directed …

Attention can be biased towards previously reward-associated stimuli even when they are
task-irrelevant and physically non-salient, although studies of reward-modulated attention …

Animals form associations between visual cues and behaviours. Although dopamine is
known to be critical in many areas of the brain to bind sensory information with appropriate …