Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Altering spatial priority maps via reward-based learning.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.
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- Contrasting the classic effect of reward on attentional priority maps: behavioral evidence for an attentional gating of spatially-specific reward signals.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Value-Driven Crossmodal Spatial Attention: The Role of Perceptual Load.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics of adapting to novel contexts during the generalization of learned spatial suppression.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Listeners do not tune in to more rewarding voices.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Retrospective attention suppresses reward-associated interference in visual working memory.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Avoiding the dichotomy between endogenous and exogenous attention: Selective attention as an attentional priority map fed by multiple interacting attentional signals.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Carry-over effect of learned distractor suppression on visual working memory.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Attention Habit II: How selection history shapes the strategic control of attention.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Reward history alters priority map based on spatial relationship, but not absolute location.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Differential Modulation of Attention by Aversive Associative and Statistical Learning in Distinct Visual Search Modes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Task-relevant information availability shapes eye movements and perceptual judgment confidence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- It's about location, location, location: Absolute and relative stimulus positions in action control.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Statistical learning re-shapes the center-surround inhibition of the visuo-spatial attentional focus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Location- and feature-based selection histories make independent, qualitatively distinct contributions to urgent visuomotor performance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Getting a grip on visual search: Relating effort exertion to the control of attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Review
- Reward History and Statistical Learning Independently Impact Attention Search: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The who and the where: Attention to identities and locations in groups.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Distracted by Previous Experience: Integrating Selection History, Current Task Demands and Saliency in an Algorithmic Model.Computational brain & behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
Spatial priority maps are real-time representations of the behavioral salience of locations in the visual field, resulting from the combined influence of stimulus driven activity and top-down signals related to the current goals of the individual. They arbitrate which of a number of (potential) targets in the visual scene will win the competition for attentional resources. As a result, deployment of visual attention to a specific spatial location is determined by the current peak of activation (corresponding to the highest behavioral salience) across the map. Here we report a behavioral study performed on healthy human volunteers, where we demonstrate that spatial priority maps can be shaped via reward-based learning, reflecting long-lasting alterations (biases) in the behavioral salience of specific spatial locations. These biases exert an especially strong influence on performance under conditions where multiple potential targets compete for selection, conferring competitive advantage to targets presented in spatial locations associated with greater reward during learning relative to targets presented in locations associated with lesser reward. Such acquired biases of spatial attention are persistent, are nonstrategic in nature, and generalize across stimuli and task contexts. These results suggest that reward-based attentional learning can induce plastic changes in spatial priority maps, endowing these representations with the "intelligent" capacity to learn from experience.
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