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In press

Youn, S., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Relating distractor suppression to problematic drinking behavior. Addictive Behaviors. [pdf]

Clement, A., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Statistically learned associations among objects bias attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. [pdf]

Kim, N., Gregoire, L., Razavi, M., Yan, N., Lee, D. S., Lewis, P., Ahn, C. R., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Protocols for evaluating the effectiveness of virtual accident experience in enhancing sensory responses to real-world warning. STAR Protocols. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (in press). Rethinking distraction. Visual Cognition. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (in press). Filtering distractors is costly. Cognition and Emotion. [pdf]

Liesefeld, H. R., Lamy, D., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J., Kerzel, D., Leber, A., Schall, J. D., Allen, H., Anderson, B. A., Busch, N., Boettcher, S., Carlisle, N., Colonius, H., Draschkow, D., Egeth, H., Müller, H. J., Röer, J. P., Schubö, A., Slagter, H., Theeuwes, J., & Wolfe, J. (in press). Terms of debate: Consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., Dubravac, M., Moore, K., Kim, N., & Anderson, B. A. (in press). Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias. Cognition and Emotion. [pdf]

2024

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Systemic influence of selection history on learned ignoring. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29, 1347-1354. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., Britton, M. K., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Motivated suppression of value- and threat-modulated attentional capture. Emotion, 22, 780-794. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., Mrkonja, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Cross-modal generalization of value-based attentional priority. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 2423-2431. [pdf]

Lee, D. S., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). The influence of reward history on goal-directed visual search. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 325-331. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Liao, M.-R., & Gregoire, L. (2022). Pavlovian learning in the selection history-dependent control of overt spatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48, 783-789. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Mrkonja, L. (2022). This is a test: Oculomotor capture when the experiment keeps score. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84, 2115-2126. [pdf]

2021

Kim, H., Nanavaty, N., Ahmed, H., Mathur, V. A., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Motivational salience guides attention to valuable and threatening stimuli: Evidence from behavior and fMRI. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 2440-2460. [pdf]

Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). How does the attention system learn from aversive outcomes? Emotion, 21, 898-903. [pdf]

Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Combined influence of valence and statistical learning on the control of attention: Evidence for independent sources of bias. Cognition, 208, 104554. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., Gregoire, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Value-biased competition in the auditory system of the brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 180-191. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., Lee, D. S., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). The influence of threat on the efficiency of goal-directed attentional control. Psychological Research, 85, 980-986. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., Lee, D. S., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Previously reward-associated sounds interfere with goal-directed auditory processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1257-1263. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). How does threat modulate the motivational effects of reward on attention? Experimental Psychology, 68, 165-172. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., Alambeigi, H., Goddard, T., McDonald, A. D., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Bicyclist-evoked arousal and greater attention to bicyclists independently promote safer driving. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6:66, 1-13. [link]

Britton, M. K., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Attentional avoidance of threatening stimuli. Psychological Research, 85, 82-90. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Semantic generalization of punishment-related attentional priority. Visual Cognition, 29, 310-317. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Punishment-modulated attentional capture is context-specific. Motivation Science, 7, 165-175. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Mrkonja, L. (2021). Oculomotor feedback rapidly reduces overt attentional capture. Cognition, 217, 104917. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2021). Using aversive conditioning with near-real-time feedback to shape eye movements during naturalistic viewing. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 993-1002. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2021). Relating value-driven attention to psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 39, 48-54. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Kim, H., Kim, A. J., Liao, M.-R., Mrkonja, L., Clement, A., & Gregoire, L. (2021). The past, present, and future of selection history. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 326-350. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2021). An adaptive view of attentional control. American Psychologist, 76, 1410-1422. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2021). Time to stop calling it attentional “capture” and embrace a mechanistic understanding of attentional priority. Visual Cognition, 29, 537-540. [pdf]

Mikhael, S., Watson, P., Anderson, B. A., & Le Pelley, M. E. (2021). You do it to yourself: Attentional capture by threat-signaling stimuli persists even when entirely counterproductive. Emotion, 21, 1691-1698. [pdf]

Kim, N., Anderson, B. A., & Ahn, C. R. (2021). Reducing risk habituation to struck-by hazards in a road construction environment using virtual reality behavioral intervention. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 147, 04021157. [pdf]

2020

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Arousal-biased competition explains reduced distraction by reward cues under threat. eNeuro, 7, ENEURO.0099-20.2020. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Threat reduces value-driven but not salience-driven attentional capture. Emotion, 20, 874-889. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). The effect of concurrent reward on aversive information processing in the brain. NeuroImage, 217, 116890. [pdf]

Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Neural correlates of attentional capture by stimuli previously associated with social reward. Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 5-15. [pdf]

Liao, M.-R., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Reward learning biases the direction of saccades. Cognition, 196, 104145. [pdf]

Liao, M.-R., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Inertia in value-driven attention. Learning and Memory, 27, 488-492. [pdf]

Liao, M.-R., Britton, M. K., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Selection history is relative. Vision Research, 175, 23-31. [pdf]

Liao, M.-R., Gregoire, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). The influence of threat and aversive motivation on conflict processing in the Stroop task. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82, 2802-2813. [pdf]

Britton, M. K., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Specificity and persistence of statistical learning in distractor suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, 324-334. [pdf]

Goddard, T., McDonald, A. D., Alambeigi, H., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A. (2020). Unsafe bicyclist overtaking behavior in a simulated driving task: The role of implicit and explicit attitudes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 144, 105595. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Britton, M. K. (2020). On the automaticity of attentional orienting to threatening stimuli. Emotion, 20, 1109-1112. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, A. J. (2020). Selection history-driven signal suppression. Visual Cognition, 28, 112-118. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Kim, H., Britton, M. K., & Kim, A. J. (2020). Measuring attention to reward as an individual trait: The value-driven attention questionnaire (VDAQ). Psychological Research, 84, 2122-2137. [pdf]

2019

Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2019). Dissociable components of experience-driven attention. Current Biology, 29, 841-845. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2019). Neurobiology of value-driven attention. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29, 27-33. [pdf]

Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2019). Neural evidence for automatic value-modulated approach behavior. NeuroImage, 189, 150-158. [pdf]

Kim, H., & Anderson, B. A. (2019). Dissociable neural mechanisms underlie value-driven and selection-driven attentional capture. Brain Research, 1708, 109-115. [pdf]

Gregoire, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2019). Semantic generalization of value-based attentional priority. Learning and Memory, 26, 460-464. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H. (2019). Test-retest reliability of value-driven attentional capture. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 720-726. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H. (2019). On the relationship between value-driven and stimulus-driven attentional capture. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 607-613. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Britton, M. K. (2019). Selection history in context: Evidence for the role of reinforcement learning in biasing attention. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics 81, 2666-2672. [pdf]

Hinault, T., Blacker, K. J., Gormley, M., Anderson, B. A., & Courtney, S. M. (2019). Value-driven attentional capture is modulated by the contents of working memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 253-267. [pdf]

2018

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H. (2018). Mechanisms of value-learning in the guidance of spatial attention. Cognition, 178, 26-36. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H. (2018). On the representational nature of value-driven spatial attentional biases. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120, 2654-2658. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Kim, H. (2018). Relating attentional biases for stimuli associated with social reward and punishment to autistic traits. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), article 10. [link]

Anderson, B. A. (2018). Controlled information processing, automaticity, and the burden of proof. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, 1814-1823. [pdf]

Sali, A. W., Anderson, B. A., Yantis, S., Mostofsky, S. H., & Rosch, K. S. (2018). Reduced value-driven attentional capture among children with ADHD compared to typically developing controls. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46, 1187-1200. [pdf]

Sali, A. W., Anderson, B. A., & Courtney, S. M. (2018). Information processing biases in the brain: Implications for decision-making and self-governance. Neuroethics, 11, 259-271. [pdf]

2017

Anderson, B. A., Kuwabara, H., Wong, D. F., Roberts, J., Rahmim, A., Brasic, J. R., & Courtney, S. M. (2017). Linking dopaminergic reward signals to the development of attentional bias: A positron emission tomographic study. NeuroImage, 157, 27-33. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2017). Reward processing in the value-driven attention network: Reward signals tracking cue identity and location. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 461-467. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2017). Going for it: The economics of automaticity in perception and action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 140-145. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Halpern, M. (2017). On the value-dependence of value-driven attentional capture. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79, 1001-1011. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2017). On the feature specificity of value-driven attention. PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0177491. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2017). Counterintuitive effects of negative social feedback on attention. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 590-597. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Kuwabara, H., Wong, D. F., & Courtney, S. M. (2017). Density of available striatal dopamine receptors predicts trait impulsiveness during an attention-demanding task. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118, 64-68. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Chiu, M., DiBartolo, M. M., & Leal, S. L. (2017). On the distinction between value-driven attention and selection history: Evidence from individuals with depressive symptoms. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 1636-1642. [pdf]

Xu, K. Z., Anderson, B. A., Emeric, E. E., Sali, A. W., Stuphorn, V., Yantis, S., & Courtney, S. M. (2017). Neural basis of cognitive control over movement inhibition: Human fMRI and primate electrophysiology evidence. Neuron, 96, 1447-1458. [pdf]

2016

Anderson, B. A. (2016). What is abnormal about addiction-related attentional biases? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 167, 8-14. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Kuwabara, H., Wong, D. F., Gean, E. G., Rahmim, A., Brasic, J. R., George, N., Frolov, B., Courtney, S. M., & Yantis, S. (2016). The role of dopamine in value-based attentional orienting. Current Biology, 26, 550-555. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Folk, C. L., Garrison, R., & Rogers, L. (2016). Mechanisms of habitual approach: Failure to suppress irrelevant responses evoked by previously reward-associated stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 796-805. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Folk, C. L., & Courtney, S. M. (2016). Neural mechanisms of goal-contingent task disengagement: Response-irrelevant stimuli activate the default mode network. Cortex, 81, 221-230. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Kronemer, S. I., Rilee, J. J., Sacktor, N., & Marvel, C. L. (2016). Reward, attention, and HIV-related risk in HIV+ individuals. Neurobiology of Disease, 92, 157-165. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2016). Social reward shapes attentional biases. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 30-36. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2016). Value-driven attentional capture in the auditory domain. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78, 242-250. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2016). The attention habit: How reward learning shapes attentional selection. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1369, 24-39. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Sali, A. W. (2016). The impact of reward on attention: Beyond motivation. In T. S. Braver (Ed.), Motivation and Cognitive Control. New York: Psychology Press.

2015

Moher, J., Anderson, B. A., & Song, J. -H. (2015). Dissociable effects of salience on attention and goal-directed action. Current Biology, 25, 2040-2046. [pdf]

Sali, A. W., Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2015). Learned states of preparatory attentional control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1790-1805. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2015). Value-driven attentional priority is context specific. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 750-756. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2015). Value-driven attentional capture is modulated by spatial context. Visual Cognition, 23, 67-81. [pdf]

Laurent, P. A., Hall, M. G., Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2015). Valuable orientations capture attention. Visual Cognition, 23, 133-146. [pdf]

Harris, A. D., Puts, N. A. J., Anderson, B. A., Yantis, S., Pekar, J., Barker, P. B., & Edden, R. A. E. (2015). Multi-regional investigation of the relationship between functional MRI BOLD activation and GABA concentration. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0117531. [pdf]

2014

Anderson, B. A., Leal, S. L., Hall, M. G., Yassa, M. A., & Yantis, S. (2014). The attribution of value-based attentional priority in individuals with depressive symptoms. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 1221-1227. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2014). Value-driven attentional priority signals in human basal ganglia and visual cortex. Brain Research, 1587, 88-96. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2014). On the precision of goal-directed attentional selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1755-1762. [pdf]

Sali, A. W., Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2014). The role of reward prediction in the control of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1654-1664. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Folk, C. L. (2014). Conditional automaticity in response selection: Contingent involuntary response inhibition with varied stimulus-response mapping. Psychological Science, 25, 547-554. [pdf]

2013

Anderson, B. A., Faulkner, M. L., Rilee, J. J., Yantis, S., & Marvel, C. L. (2013). Attentional bias for non-drug reward is magnified in addiction. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21, 499-506. [pdf]

Sali, A. W., Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2013). Reinforcement learning modulates the stability of cognitive control settings for object selection. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7:95. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2013). Persistence of value-driven attentional capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 6-9. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2013). Reward predictions bias attentional selection. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:262. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A. (2013). A value-driven mechanism of attentional selection. Journal of Vision, 13(3):7, 1-16. [pdf]

2012

Anderson, B. A., & Folk, C. L. (2012). Contingent involuntary motoric inhibition: The involuntary inhibition of a motor response contingent on top-down goals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 1348-1352. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Yantis, S. (2012). Value-driven attentional and oculomotor capture during goal-directed, unconstrained viewing. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1644-1653. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A, & Yantis, S. (2012). Generalization of value-based attentional priority. Visual Cognition, 20, 647-658. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., & Folk, C. L. (2012). Dissociating location-specific inhibition and attention shifts: Evidence against the disengagement account of contingent capture. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1183-1198. [pdf]

Yantis, S., Anderson, B. A., Wampler, E. K., & Laurent, P. A. (2012). Reward and attentional control in visual search. In M. D. Dodd & J. H. Flowers (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Vol. 59), The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. [pdf]

2011

Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2011). Value-driven attentional capture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 108, 10367-10371. [pdf]

Anderson, B. A., Laurent, P. A., & Yantis, S. (2011). Learned value magnifies salience-based attentional capture. PLoS ONE, 6(11), e27926. [pdf]

2010

Anderson, B. A., & Folk, C. L. (2010). Variations in the magnitude of attentional capture: Testing a two-process model. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72, 342-352. [pdf]

Folk, C. L., & Anderson, B. A. (2010). Target uncertainty effects in attentional capture: Color singleton set or multiple attentional control settings? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17, 421-426. [pdf]