Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet
skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things …

Theories of selective attention in associative learning posit that the salience of a cue will be
high if the cue is the best available predictor of reinforcement (high predictiveness). In …

What is the causal relationship between crisis, learning and change? How did causality
unfold in the key years of 2009–2010 when the European Union had to face the most …

A large body of evidence has implicated the posterior parietal and orbitofrontal cortex in the
processing of value. However, value correlates perfectly with salience when appetitive …

Developmental research on selective social learning, or 'social learning strategies', is
currently a rich source of information about when children copy behaviour, and who they …

Many modern learning theories assume that the amount of attention to a cue depends on
how well that cue predicted important events in the past. Schizophrenia is associated with …

Determining how variation in brain morphology affects cognitive abilities is important to
understand inter-individual variation in cognition and, ultimately, cognitive evolution. Yet …

Attentional theories of associative learning and categorization propose that learning about
the predictiveness of a stimulus influences the amount of attention that is paid to that …

Individual differences in learning can influence how animals respond to and communicate
about their environment, which may nonlinearly shape how a social group accomplishes a …

Recent research has shown that reward learning can modulate oculomotor and attentional
capture by physically salient and task-irrelevant distractor stimuli, even when directing gaze …