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 …

Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

There is growing consensus that reward plays an important role in the control of attention.
Until recently, reward was thought to influence attention indirectly by modulating task …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

Attention provides the gateway to cognition, by selecting certain stimuli for further analysis.
Recent research demonstrates that whether a stimulus captures attention is not determined …

Attention selects stimuli for cognitive processing, and the mechanisms that underlie the
process of attentional selection have been a major topic of psychological research for over …

Stimuli that have previously been associated with the delivery of reward involuntarily capture
attention when presented as unrewarded and task-irrelevant distractors in a subsequent …

Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories
typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning …

Goal-directed and stimulus-driven factors determine attentional priority through a well
defined dorsal frontal-parietal and ventral temporal-parietal network of brain regions …

Covert shifts of attention precede and direct overt eye movements to stimuli that are task
relevant or physically salient. A growing body of evidence suggests that the learned value of …