Recent theories of attentional control emphasize the importance of selection history, broadly construed, in determining priority for selection. Awh, Belopolsky, and Theeuwes (
2012) argue that prior selection of a stimulus can modify its attentional priority in future encounters, in ways that are not well accounted for by either salience-based or goal-based models of attention. Such selection history can include reward-based effects, in addition to phenomena such as priming (e.g., Found & Müller,
1996; Maljkovic & Nakayama,
1994; Müller et al.,
1995; Müller et al.,
2003), contextual cuing (e.g., Chun & Jiang,
1998; Jiang, Swallow, Rosenbaum, & Herzig,
2013), and perceptual learning (e.g., Kyllingsbaek et al.,
2001; Shiffrin & Schneider,
1977). Similarly, Hutchinson and Turk-Browne (
2012) argue that memory representations of stimuli and context play an important role in attentional selection. For example, attention is automatically biased to aspects of a scene that contain previously experienced statistical regularities (
Zhao, Al-Aidroos, & Turk-Browne, in press), and the contents of working memory can automatically guide attention even in the presence of countermanding goals (e.g., Olivers, Meijer, & Theeuwes,
2006; Olivers, Peters, Houtkamp, & Roelfsema,
2011).