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 …

The incentive-sensitization theory (IST) of addiction was first published in 1993, proposing
that (a) brain mesolimbic dopamine systems mediate incentive motivation (“wanting”) for …

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 …

Although it is often assumed that a physically salient stimulus automatically captures
attention even when it is irrelevant to a current task, the signal-suppression hypothesis …

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 …

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 …

Attention prioritizes stimuli previously associated with reward or punishment. The present
study examined whether this attentional bias, widely considered to be involuntary and …

Prior experience has a strong impact on search performance, and most recent models of
attention incorporate selection history as an important source of attentional guidance. Here …

Pairing a stimulus with large reward increases the likelihood that it will capture attention and
eye-gaze, even when such capture has negative consequences. This suggests that a …

Selection history exerts a powerful influence on the control of attention. Stimuli signalling
reward and punishment capture attention even when physically non-salient and task …