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 …

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 …

Background While it is generally recognised that cognitive attributes can predict behaviour
change outcomes in the field of addiction this question is typically studied in treatment …

Aim Food restriction is argued to be a precursor for unhealthy preoccupation with food,
possibly leading to the development of an eating disorder. We updated previous meta …

Fear conditioning is a significant area of research that has featured prominently among the
topics published in Biological Psychology over the last 50 years. This work has greatly …

Animal research has identified two major phenotypes in the tendency to attribute incentive
salience to a reward-associated cue. Individuals called “sign-trackers”(STs) preferentially …

In natural environments objects comprise multiple features from the same or different
sensory modalities but it is not known how perception of an object is affected by the value …

Before we can make any choice, we must gather information from the environment about
what our options are. This information-gathering process is critically mediated by attention …

Some studies have suggested that emotion-associated features might influence attentional
capture. However, demonstrating valence-dependent distractor interference has proven …