Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

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

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

Highlights•Expectations for positive experience/outcomes benefit motor performance and
learning.•Conditions that support performer autonomy benefit motor performance and …

The distinction between perception and cognition figures centrally in many philosophical
debates, including debates about the justificatory role of perceptual experience, the …

The allocation of attention to objects raises several intriguing questions: What are objects,
how does attention access them, what anatomical regions are involved? Here, we review …

Spatial priority maps are real-time representations of the behavioral salience of locations in
the visual field, resulting from the combined influence of stimulus driven activity and top …

These findings have implications for understanding and assessing affective biases in
perception and attention in patients with psychiatric disorders, such as phobias, depression …

Recent evidence shows that distractors that signal high compared to low reward availability
elicit stronger attentional capture, even when this is detrimental for task-performance. This …

In this paper we argue that predictive processing (PP) theory cannot account for the
phenomenon of affect-biased attention–prioritized attention to stimuli that are affectively …