Attentional selection is driven, in part, by a complex interplay between endogenous and exogenous cues. Recently, one’s interactions with the physical world have also been shown to bias attention. Specifically, the sense of agency that arises when our actions cause predictable outcomes biases our attention toward those things which we control. We investigated how this agency-driven attentional bias interacts with simultaneously presented endogenous (words) and exogenous (color singletons) environmental cues. Participants controlled the movement of one object while others moved independently. In a subsequent search task, targets were either the previously controlled objects or not. Targets were also validly or invalidly cued. Both cue types influenced attention allocation. Endogenous cues and agency-driven attentional selection were independent and additive, indicating they are separable mechanisms of selection. In contrast, exogenous cues eliminated the effects of agency, indicating that perceptually salient environmental cues can override internally derived effects of agency. This is the first demonstration of a boundary condition on agency-driven selection.

注意选择部分是由内源性和外源性线索之间复杂的相互作用驱动的。最近，一个人与物理世界的互动也被证明会偏向注意力。具体来说，当我们的行为导致可预测的结果时产生的代理感使我们的注意力偏向于我们控制的那些事情。我们调查了这种机构驱动的注意力偏差如何与同时呈现的内源性（单词）和外源性（单色）环境线索相互作用。参与者控制一个物体的运动，而其他人独立移动。在随后的搜索任务中，目标要么是先前控制的对象，要么不是。目标也被有效或无效地提示。两种线索类型都会影响注意力分配。内源性线索和代理驱动的注意力选择是独立的和相加的，表明它们是可分离的选择机制。相比之下，外源线索消除了代理的影响，表明感知上显着的环境线索可以覆盖代理的内部衍生效应。这是代理驱动选择的边界条件的首次演示。