Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention: Evidence for independent sources of bias.

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 o

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature