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 …

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 …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

Abstract The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) combines the Internet of Things (IoT) with
medical equipment to provide better patient comfort, cost-effective medical solutions, faster …

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

Two factors play important roles in shaping perception: the allocation of selective attention to
behaviorally relevant sensory features, and prior expectations about regularities in the …

Faces are among the most important visual stimuli that humans perceive in everyday life.
While extensive literature has examined emotional processing and social evaluations of …

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 …

People have a strong tendency to attend to reward cues, even if these cues are irrelevant to
their current goal or their current task. When reward cues are goal-irrelevant, their presence …

Background The phenotype of addiction includes prominent attentional biases for drug cues,
which play a role in motivating drug-seeking behavior and contribute to relapse. In a …