Value-driven attentional capture in the auditory domain. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • It is now well established that the visual attention system is shaped by reward learning. When visual features are associated with a reward outcome, they acquire high priority and can automatically capture visual attention. To date, evidence for value-driven attentional capture has been limited entirely to the visual system. In the present study, I demonstrate that previously reward-associated sounds also capture attention, interfering more strongly with the performance of a visual task. This finding suggests that value-driven attention reflects a broad principle of information processing that can be extended to other sensory modalities and that value-driven attention can bias cross-modal stimulus competition.

published proceedings

  • Atten Percept Psychophys

altmetric score

  • 1.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Anderson, B. A.

citation count

  • 34

complete list of authors

  • Anderson, Brian A

publication date

  • January 2016