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 …

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

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 …

Speed-accuracy trade-off is an intensively studied law governing almost all behavioral tasks
across species. Here we show that motivation by reward breaks this law, by simultaneously …

Visual selective attention is the brain function that modulates ongoing processing of retinal
input in order for selected representations to gain privileged access to perceptual …

Attention selects stimuli for cognitive processing, and the mechanisms that underlie the
process of attentional selection have been a major topic of psychological research for over …

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes
the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and …

Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation
based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural …

Humans and other animals often violate economic principles when choosing between
multiple alternatives, but the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms remain elusive. A …

Accounts of the effect of emotional information on behavioral response and current models
of emotion regulation are based on two opposed but interacting processes: automatic …