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 …

Vision is widely used as a model system to gain insights into how sensory inputs are
processed and interpreted by the brain. Historically, careful quantification and control of …

To find important objects, we must focus on our goals, ignore distractions, and take our
changing environment into account. This is formalized in models of visual search whereby …

Movements of the Mind is about what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, it
integrates multiple approaches, from philosophical analysis of the metaphysics of agency to …

Past reward associations may be signaled from different sensory modalities; however, it
remains unclear how different types of reward-associated stimuli modulate sensory …

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 …

Reward-related activity in the dopaminergic midbrain is thought to guide animal behavior, in
part by boosting the perceptual and attentional processing of reward-predictive …

In this Element, a framework is proposed in which it is assumed that visual selection is the
result of the interaction between top-down, bottom-up and selection-history factors. The …

Rewarding and aversive outcomes have opposing effects on behavior, facilitating approach
and avoidance, although we need to accurately anticipate each type of outcome to behave …

Can you reduce uncertainty by thinking? Intuition suggests that this happens through the
elusive process of attention: if we expend mental effort, we can increase the reliability of our …