Inertia in value-driven attention. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Previously reward-associated stimuli persistently capture attention. We attempted to extinguish this attentional bias through a reversal learning procedure where the high-value color changed unexpectedly. Attentional priority shifted during training in favor of the currently high-value color, although a residual bias toward the original high-value color was still evident. Importantly, during a subsequent test phase, attention was initially more strongly biased toward the original high-value color, counter to the attentional priorities evident at the end of training. Our results show that value-based attentional biases do not quickly update with new learning and lag behind the reshaping of strategic attentional priorities by reward.

published proceedings

  • Learn Mem

altmetric score

  • 2

author list (cited authors)

  • Liao, M., & Anderson, B. A.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Liao, Ming-Ray||Anderson, Brian A

publication date

  • December 2020