On the relationship between value-driven and stimulus-driven attentional capture. Academic Article

abstract

• Reward history, physical salience, and task relevance all influence the degree to which a stimulus competes for attention, reflecting value-driven, stimulus-driven, and goal-contingent attentional capture, respectively. Theories of value-driven attention have likened reward cues to physically salient stimuli, positing that reward cues are preferentially processed in early visual areas as a result of value-modulated plasticity in the visual system. Such theories predict a strong coupling between value-driven and stimulus-driven attentional capture across individuals. In the present study, we directly test this hypothesis, and demonstrate a robust correlation between value-driven and stimulus-driven attentional capture. Our findings suggest substantive overlap in the mechanisms of competition underlying the attentional priority of reward cues and physically salient stimuli.

authors

• Anderson, Brian

published proceedings

• Atten Percept Psychophys

altmetric score

• 2

author list (cited authors)

• Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H.

citation count

• 34

complete list of authors

• Anderson, Brian A||Kim, Haena

publication date

• April 2019

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• n1943-3921ISSN  Journal

keywords

• Attentional Bias
• Cues
• Eye Movements
• Humans
• Reward
• Reward Learning
• Selective Attention
• Visual Salience

PubMed Central ID

• 30697647

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3758/s13414-019-01670-2

start page

• 607

end page

• 613

volume

• 81

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01670-2