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 …

From its academic beginnings the theory of human action control has distinguished between
endogenously driven, intentional action and exogenously driven, habitual, or automatic …

As evidenced through classic Pavlovian learning mechanisms, environmental cues can
become incentivized and influence behavior. These stimulus-outcome associations are …

A cue that signals reward can capture attention and elicit approach behaviors in people and
animals. The current study examined whether attentional capture by reward-related cues is …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

Stimuli predicting rewards are more likely to capture attention, even when they are not
relevant to our current goals. Individual differences in value-modulated attentional capture …

Highlights•Attention is powerfully affected by our prior experiences.•Reward-related stimuli
continue to capture attention when no longer task-relevant.•Stimuli that previously signaled …

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 …

Reward-learning theory views habits as stimulus–response links formed through extended
reward training. Accordingly, animal research has shown that actions that are initially goal …

Existing research indicates that learning about the Pavlovian 'signal value'of stimuli can
induce attentional biases: findings suggest that our attentional system prioritises detection of …