In a very influential yet anecdotal illustration, Yarbus suggested that human eye-movement
patterns are modulated top down by different task demands. While the hypothesis that it is …

The sequence of study influences how we learn. Previous research has identified different
sequences as potentially beneficial for learning in different contexts and with different …

While the close link between eye movements and visual attention has often been
demonstrated, recently distinct attentional modes have been associated with specific eye …

Two fundamental difficulties when learning novel categories are deciding (a) what
information is relevant and (b) when to use that information. Although previous theories have …

Intelligence relies on our ability to find appropriate sequences of decisions in complex
problem spaces. The efficiency of a problem solver depends on the speed of its individual …

Reward magnitude is a central concept in most theories of preferential decision making and
learning. However, it is unknown whether variable rewards also influence cognitive …

Although current exemplar models of category learning are flexible and can capture how
different features are emphasized for different categories, they still lack the flexibility to adapt …

For better or worse, humans live a resource-constrained existence; only a fraction of
physical sensations ever reach conscious awareness, and we store a shockingly small …

Learning how to allocate attention properly is essential for success at many categorization
tasks. Advances in our understanding of learned attention are stymied by a chicken-and-egg …

Introduction After category learning, same-category items tend to be rated as more similar
than items from different categories. Whether this category bias in similarity ratings reflects …