The past, present, and future of selection history

BA Anderson, H Kim, AJ Kim, MR Liao… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Selection history: How reward modulates selectivity of visual attention

M Failing, J Theeuwes - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

[HTML][HTML] Visual selection: Usually fast and automatic; seldom slow and volitional

J Theeuwes - Journal of cognition, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recently it was argued that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, lingering
biases of selection history play a major role in visual selection (Awh, Belopolsky & …

Attentional capture by signals of threat

LJ Schmidt, AV Belopolsky, J Theeuwes - Cognition and emotion, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Attention can be captured automatically by events that are physically salient. Similarly,
emotional stimuli are known to be prioritised by the visual system because of their …

Attention to threat in posttraumatic stress disorder as indexed by eye-tracking indices: a systematic review

A Lazarov, B Suarez-Jimenez, A Tamman… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundCognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) implicate threat-
related attentional biases in the etiology and phenomenology of the disorder. However …

Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations

KE Ojala, DR Bach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

An integrative review of attention biases and their contribution to treatment for anxiety disorders

TJ Barry, B Vervliet, D Hermans - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Models of exposure therapy, one of the key components of cognitive behavioral therapy for
anxiety disorders, suggest that attention may play an important role in the extinction of fear …

Attentional economics links value-modulated attentional capture and decision-making

D Pearson, P Watson, L Albertella… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Prioritizing pleasure and pain: Attentional capture by reward-related and punishment-related stimuli

P Watson, D Pearson, RW Wiers… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Attention is powerfully affected by our prior experiences.•Reward-related stimuli
continue to capture attention when no longer task-relevant.•Stimuli that previously signaled …

People look at the object they fear: Oculomotor capture by stimuli that signal threat

T Nissens, M Failing, J Theeuwes - Cognition and emotion, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
It is known that people covertly attend to threatening stimuli even when it is not beneficial for
the task. In the current study we examined whether overt selection is affected by the …