ABSTRACT

Attention researchers have long debated the role that attentional control settings play in determining selection. In their article, Luck et al. (2021) have identified points of consensus among traditionally opposed models of attentional control, one of which is that prior experience (i.e., selection history) allows attentional control settings to suppress attention to salient distractors by inhibiting the attentional priority of learned distractor features and/or locations. However, the influence of prior experience on attentional priority is not exclusively inhibitory. In particular, experiencing the relationship between a stimulus feature and reward has been shown to increase that feature's attentional priority. Here, we discuss recent findings investigating how these competing influences of selection history interact, suggesting that experience-driven distractor suppression and reward independently modulate attentional selection.

摘要

注意力研究人员长期以来一直在争论注意力控制设置在决定选择中的作用。在他们的文章中，Luck 等人。(2021) 已经确定了传统上对立的注意力控制模型之间的共识点，其中之一是先前的经验（即选择历史) 允许注意力控制设置通过抑制已学习的干扰项特征和/或位置的注意力优先级来抑制对显着干扰项的注意力。然而，先前经验对注意力优先级的影响并不完全是抑制性的。特别是，体验刺激特征和奖励之间的关系已被证明可以增加该特征的注意力优先级。在这里，我们讨论了最近关于选择历史的这些竞争影响如何相互作用的研究结果，表明经验驱动的干扰抑制和奖励独立调节注意力选择。