When goals conflict with values: Counterproductive attentional and oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 158-171

  Le Pelley, Mike E ^a   Pearson, Daniel ^a   Griffiths, Oren ^a   Beesley, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Eye movements; Reinforcement learning; Reward learning; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SACCADES; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925646358     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000037     Document Type: Article

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