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The role of selective attention in value-modulated attentional capture

Abstract Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) is typically viewed as independent of task goals or physical salience, arising from associative learning. However, recent evidence sugge...

From fascination to fear and disgust: cross-cultural assessment of emotional and aesthetic responses to snake imagery

The primate visual system is thought to have evolved under selective pressures favouring rapid detection of snakes, ancestral predators that shaped perceptual and attentional mechanisms. Yet, the transition from visual detection to subjective fear remains poorly understood and ma...