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 …

Background: Cognitive tasks are typically viewed as effortful, frustrating, and repetitive,
which often leads to participant disengagement. This, in turn, may negatively impact data …

Background Cognitive tasks designed to measure or train cognition are often repetitive and
presented in a monotonous manner, features that lead to participant boredom and …

Intelligent game-based learning environments have developed and created dynamic,
effective, and engaging learning experiences, serving as a tutoring framework for students of …

Findings from an increasingly large number of studies have been used to argue that
attentional capture can be dependent on the learned value of a stimulus, or value-driven …

Previously rewarded stimuli involuntarily capture attention. The learning mechanisms
underlying this value-driven attentional capture remain less understood. We tested whether …

People have a strong tendency to attend to reward cues, even if these cues are irrelevant to
their current goal or their current task. When reward cues are goal-irrelevant, their presence …

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 …

Background: A lack of ability to inhibit prepotent responses, or more generally a lack of
impulse control, is associated with several disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity …

Shooting a firearm involves a complex series of cognitive abilities. For example, locating an
item or a person of interest requires visual search, and firing the weapon (or withholding a …