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 …

Highlights•Associative reward learning biases attention in favor of reward-predictive
stimuli.•Reward-evoked dopamine release gives rise to plasticity in the visual system.•Such …

Statistical regularities in distractor location trigger suppression of high-probability distractor
locations during visual search. The degree to which such suppression reflects …

Through statistical learning, humans can learn to suppress visual areas that often contain
distractors. Recent findings suggest that this form of learned suppression is insensitive to …

Although humans can voluntarily direct their attention to particular stimuli, attention can at
times be involuntarily allocated to stimuli and such attentional capture can result in …

Recent research has demonstrated that observers can learn to prevent attentional capture
by physically salient stimuli. One critical question is how observers learn to avoid capture …

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 …

Anxiety is an adaptive neural state that promotes rapid responses under heightened
vigilance when survival is threatened. Anxiety has consistently been found to potentiate the …

Visual attention can sometimes be involuntarily captured by salient stimuli, and this may
lead to impaired performance in a variety of real-world tasks. If observers were aware that …

The present study investigates the flexibility of statistically learned distractor suppression
between different contexts. Participants performed the additional singleton task searching for …