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 control of attention was long held to reflect the influence of two competing mechanisms
of assigning priority, one goal-directed and the other stimulus-driven. Learning-dependent …

People often have limited awareness of the extent to which their attention is captured by
salient-but-irrelevant stimuli. In the present study, we examined how providing feedback …

It has long been debated whether emotional information inherently captures attention. The
mainstream view suggests that the attentional processing of emotional information is …

Attention is biased in favor of stimuli that signal either threat or reward; this experience-
dependent attentional bias develops via associative learning and persists into extinction …

Attention must be carefully controlled to avoid distraction by salient stimuli. The signal
suppression hypothesis proposes that salient stimuli can be proactively suppressed to …

Visual attention can be tuned to specific features to aid in visual search. The way in which
these search strategies are established and maintained is flexible, reflecting goal-directed …

In recent years, evidence has accumulated towards a distractor suppression mechanism that
enables efficient selection of targets in a visual search task. According to these findings, the …

To interact efficiently with the visual environment, one perceptually integrates fragmented
visual inputs into complete units. Another approach is to rely on previous experience to …

Stimuli associated with high reward modulate perception and such value-driven effects have
been shown to originate from the modulation of the earliest stages of sensory processing in …