Given limitations in the amount of visual information that a person can simultaneously
process through to conscious perception, selective visual attention is necessary. Visual …

If platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the engines of social media use,
what is the gasoline? The answer can be found in the psychological dynamics behind …

As online learning becomes an indispensable component of the current education system,
students benefit from the advantages of online education. At the same time, students are …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

In natural environments objects comprise multiple features from the same or different
sensory modalities but it is not known how perception of an object is affected by the value …

Flexible learning of changing reward contingencies can be realized with different strategies.
A fast learning strategy involves using working memory of recently rewarded objects to …

Social media cues can distract people from working on intended tasks. Accordingly, in the
context of social media, this study examines what influences a person's distractibility …

Recent research has demonstrated a counterproductive attentional bias toward threat-
related stimuli: under conditions in which fixating on a color distractor stimulus sometimes …

Standard economics models require that financial incentives improve performance, while
leading theories in psychology allow for the opposite. Experimental results are mixed, and …

Existing research demonstrates different ways in which attentional prioritization of salient
nontarget stimuli is shaped by prior experience: Reward learning renders signals of high …