Berno Bucker

• PhD
• Business Development Manager at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

French translation of the paper "Looking at paintings in the Vincent Van Gogh Museum: Eye movement patterns of children and adults"

It has been shown that pure Pavlovian associative reward learning can elicit value-driven attentional capture. However, in previous studies, task-irrelevant and response-independent reward-signalling stimuli hardly competed for visual selective attention. Here we put Pavlovian reward learning to the test by manipulating the extent to which bottom-u...

In the present study, we examined the eye movement behaviour of children and adults looking at five Van Gogh paintings in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The goal of the study was to determine the role of top-down and bottom-up attentional processes in the first stages of participants’ aesthetic experience. Bottom-up processes were quantified by de...

Recent evidence shows that distractors that signal high compared to low reward availability elicit stronger attentional capture, even when this is detrimental for task-performance. This suggests that simply correlating stimuli with reward administration, rather than their instrumental relationship with obtaining reward, produces value-driven attent...

Typically, if attending a target stimulus is consistently paired with obtaining high reward, then that stimulus becomes more likely to capture attention compared with an equally salient stimulus associated with low reward. Recent evidence extends this finding by showing that task-irrelevant distractors that signal high compared with low reward avai...

In two experiments, we utilized an exogenous cueing task in which different-colored abrupt-onset cues were associated with an appetitive (gain of 10 cents), aversive (loss of 5 cents), or neutral (no gain or loss) outcome. Reward delivery did not depend on performance, but instead the specific exogenous cues were always followed by their correspond...

It is well know that rewards influence attentional selection, so that we may adapt our behavior to maximize reward rate. Both reward-signaling cues and exogenous cues capture attention automatically and cause changes in performance at their location. The typical time course of changes due to exogenous cues shows an initial facilitation effect at th...

Salient stimuli and stimuli associated with reward have the ability to attract both attention and the eyes. The current study exploited the effects of reward on the wellknown global effect in which two objects appear simultaneously in close spatial proximity. Participants always made saccades to a predefined target, while the colour of a nearby dis...

It is thought that reward-induced motivation influences perceptual, attentional, and cognitive control processes to facilitate behavioral performance. In this study, we investigated the effect of reward-induced motivation on exogenous attention orienting and inhibition of return (IOR). Attention was captured by peripheral onset cues that were nonpr...