Prominent models of attentional control assert a dichotomy between top-down and bottom-
up control, with the former determined by current selection goals and the latter determined …

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 …

Attention selects which aspects of sensory input are brought to awareness. To promote
survival and well-being, attention prioritizes stimuli both voluntarily, according to context …

In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

Reward contains separable psychological components of learning, incentive motivation and
pleasure. Most computational models have focused only on the learning component of …

Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

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 …

The incentive-sensitization theory (IST) of addiction was first published in 1993, proposing
that (a) brain mesolimbic dopamine systems mediate incentive motivation (“wanting”) for …