Attention as foraging for information and reward

What is the purpose of attention? One avenue of research has led to the proposal that attention might be crucial for gathering information about the environment, while other lines of study have demonstrated attention's role in guiding behavior to rewarded options. Many experiments to study a...

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Main Authors: Sanjay G Manohar, Masud eHusain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00711/full