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 …

As evidenced through classic Pavlovian learning mechanisms, environmental cues can
become incentivized and influence behavior. These stimulus-outcome associations are …

Over the past 20 years, the proposal that immersive media, such as video games, can be
leveraged to enhance brain plasticity and learning has been put to the test. This expanding …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …