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 …

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 …

Visual selective attention acts as a filter on perceptual information, facilitating learning and
inference about important events in an agent's environment. A role for visual attention in …

Attention refers to the set of cognitive mechanisms that facilitate the prioritization of incoming
sensory information. Existing research suggests that motivationally salient stimuli, such as …

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 …

Valuable stimuli receive attentional priority. However, it is unknown whether the mechanism
of the attentional priority is based on relative (eg, higher) or absolute (eg, 45 points) values …

Recent research has demonstrated a counterproductive attentional bias toward threat-
related stimuli: under conditions in which fixating on a color distractor stimulus sometimes …

The neural bases of attention, a set of neural processes that promote behavioral selection, is
a subject of intense investigation. In humans, rewarded cues influence attention, even when …

Previous paradigms used to examine attentional distraction by task-irrelevant food words
and food images were not suited for the investigation of involuntary and automatic …