ArticleCognition2021
Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention: Evidence for independent sources of bias.
Article in Cognition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Distinct underlying mechanisms contribute to learning-dependent distractor rejection.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Guidance of attention by statistical learning when multiple guidance mechanisms compete.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Contrasting the classic effect of reward on attentional priority maps: behavioral evidence for an attentional gating of spatially-specific reward signals.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
- Statistical learning and the efficiency of visual search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Statistical regularities bias memory decisions without enhancing working memory encoding: Insights from attribute amnesia.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Differential Modulation of Attention by Aversive Associative and Statistical Learning in Distinct Visual Search Modes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reward History and Statistical Learning Independently Impact Attention Search: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Trichotomy revisited: A monolithic theory of attentional control.Vision research · 2024Article
- Selection history and the strategic control of attention.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2024Article
- Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention II: Evidence from within-domain additivity.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Statistical learning of distractor shape modulates attentional capture.Vision research · 2023Article
- Systemic effects of selection history on learned ignoring.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Spatial task relevance modulates value-driven attentional capture.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- On the Influence of Spatial and Value Attentional Cues Across Individuals.Journal of cognition · 2022Article
- An adaptive view of attentional control.The American psychologist · 2021Review
- The past, present, and future of selection history.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Time to Stop Calling it Attentional "Capture" and Embrace a Mechanistic Understanding of Attentional Priority.Visual cognition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Selection history exerts a powerful influence on the control of attention. Stimuli signalling reward and punishment capture attention even when physically non-salient and task-irrelevant. Repeated presentation of a salient distractor at a particular location generates learned suppression, resulting in reduced attentional processing at that location. A debate in the field concerns whether different components of selection history influence attention via a common underlying mechanism of learning-dependent control or via distinct, independent mechanisms. We probed this question with a particular focus on reward/punishment history and learned suppression. Participants were trained to suppress a particular location (high probability distractor location) and associate colours with reward or no outcome (no-reward). In a subsequent task, reward and no-reward distractors appeared in all locations equally often. In a separate experiment, we replaced reward with electric shocks. Reward and shock distractors captured attention more strongly than no-reward and no-shock distractors irrespective of their location. Distractors appearing in the high probability location showed reduced capture irrespective of their type. The results imply that reward and punishment learning and learned suppression have independent influences on the attentional system.
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