Reward Draws the Eye, Uncertainty Holds the Eye: Associative Learning Modulates Distractor Interference in Visual Search

Stimuli in our sensory environment differ with respect to their physical salience but moreover may acquire motivational salience by association with reward. If we repeatedly observed that reward is available in the context of a particular cue but absent in the context of another cue the former typic...

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Main Authors: Stephan Koenig, Hanna Kadel, Metin Uengoer, Anna Schubö, Harald Lachnit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00128/full