Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC)
During training, participants learn that certain colour singletons predict high vs. low monetary reward; in a subsequent test, these now task-irrelevant colours appear as distractors in a visual search display where reward is no longer at stake. Slower responses and increased eye-movements to high-value distractors index how learned value captures attention independently of goals and physical salience.
- Attention
- Learning
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Key references
- Le Pelley, M. E., Pearson, D., Griffiths, O., & Beesley, T. (2015). When goals conflict with values: Counterproductive attentional and oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), 158-171. doi:10.1037/xge0000037