The past, present, and future of selection history

BA Anderson, H Kim, AJ Kim, MR Liao… - Neuroscience & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Selection history: How reward modulates selectivity of visual attention

M Failing, J Theeuwes - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018‏ - Springer
Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

Visual selection: Usually fast and automatic; seldom slow and volitional

J Theeuwes - Journal of cognition, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recently it was argued that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, lingering
biases of selection history play a major role in visual selection (Awh, Belopolsky & …

Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations

KE Ojala, DR Bach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

Statistical regularities bias overt attention

B Wang, I Samara, J Theeuwes - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2019‏ - Springer
A previous study employing the additional singleton paradigm showed that a singleton
distractor that appeared more often in one specific location interfered less with target search …

Prioritizing pleasure and pain: Attentional capture by reward-related and punishment-related stimuli

P Watson, D Pearson, RW Wiers… - Current Opinion in …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Attention is powerfully affected by our prior experiences.•Reward-related stimuli
continue to capture attention when no longer task-relevant.•Stimuli that previously signaled …

On the automaticity of attentional orienting to threatening stimuli.

BA Anderson, MK Britton - Emotion, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Attention is biased toward stimuli that have been associated with aversive outcomes in the
past. This bias has previously been interpreted as reflecting automatic orienting toward …

Attentional economics links value-modulated attentional capture and decision-making

D Pearson, P Watson, L Albertella… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control

BA Anderson - Vision Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
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 …

The influence of emotional stimuli on the oculomotor system: A review of the literature

M Mulckhuyse - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018‏ - Springer
In the past decade, more and more research has been investigating oculomotor behavior in
relation to attentional selection of emotional stimuli. Whereas previous research on covert …