PMID- 29675555
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190513
LR  - 20190513
IS  - 1943-393X (Electronic)
IS  - 1943-3921 (Linking)
VI  - 80
IP  - 6
DP  - 2018 Aug
TI  - Reward history but not search history explains value-driven attentional capture.
PG  - 1436-1448
LID - 10.3758/s13414-018-1513-z [doi]
AB  - In past years, an extensive amount of research has focused on how past 
      experiences guide future attention. Humans automatically attend to stimuli 
      previously associated with reward and stimuli that have been experienced during 
      visual search, even when it is disadvantageous in present situations. Recently, 
      the relationship between "reward history" and "search history" has been discussed 
      critically. We review results from research on value-driven attentional capture 
      (VDAC) with a focus on these two experience-based attentional selection processes 
      and their distinction. To clarify inconsistencies, we examined VDAC within a 
      design that allows a direct comparison with other mechanisms of attentional 
      selection. Eighty-four healthy adults were trained to incidentally associate 
      colors with reward (10 cents, 2 cents) or with no reward. In a subsequent visual 
      search task, distraction by reward-associated and unrewarded stimuli was 
      contrasted. In the training phase, reward signals facilitated performance. When 
      these value-signaling stimuli appeared as distractors in the test phase, they 
      continuously shaped attentional selection, despite their task irrelevance. Our 
      findings clearly cannot be attributed to a history of target search. We conclude 
      that once an association is established, value signals guide attention 
      automatically in new situations, which can be beneficial or not, depending on the 
      congruency with current goals.
FAU - Marchner, Janina R
AU  - Marchner JR
AD  - Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty 
      of Natural Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitatsplatz 2, 
      Gebaude 24, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany. janina.marchner@ovgu.de.
AD  - Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany. 
      janina.marchner@ovgu.de.
FAU - Preuschhof, Claudia
AU  - Preuschhof C
AD  - Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty 
      of Natural Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitatsplatz 2, 
      Gebaude 24, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany.
AD  - Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Atten Percept Psychophys
JT  - Attention, perception & psychophysics
JID - 101495384
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Attentional Bias
MH  - Cues
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - *Reward
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attentional capture
OT  - Reward learning
OT  - Selective attention
EDAT- 2018/04/21 06:00
MHDA- 2019/05/14 06:00
CRDT- 2018/04/21 06:00
PHST- 2018/04/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/05/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/04/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3758/s13414-018-1513-z [pii]
AID - 10.3758/s13414-018-1513-z [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Atten Percept Psychophys. 2018 Aug;80(6):1436-1448. doi: 
      10.3758/s13414-018-1513-z.