Abstract:

Stimulus associated with reward could capture attention, which was called value-driven attention capture (Anderson, 2013). Reward can facilitate attention selection when it was associated with target; while it would slow down target selection when associated with distractor. Reward exerts great impact on attention deployment by unique cognitive mechanism which can be modulated by various factors such as monetary prediction, capacity of visual working memory, personal characteristics and the salience of stimulus. Future studies should try to apply research findings of value-driven attention capture to the intervention of attention dysfunction.

Key words: reward, attention selection, attention capture, value-driven