Dynamic interplay between reward and voluntary attention determines stimulus processing in visual cortex

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Ghent University [grant 617 #01D02415 awarded to IG; grant # BOF14/PDO/123 awarded to AS], the Concerted Research Action Grant of Ghent University [grant number BOF16/GOA/017 awarded to EHWK], and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/P002404/1 awarded to SKA]. The funding sources were not involved in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the report; and decision to submit the article for publication. We would like to thank Prof. Gilles Pourtois for his help with conceiving the study and for the very useful discussions of the results. Further, we thank Gilles for all of the materials he provided for this study. We would also like to thank Dr. Ladislas Nalborczyk for discussions about statistical analyses of the data, Prof. Ruth Krebs for her comments on a previous version of the manuscript, and Dr. Inez Greven for help with data collectionPeer reviewedPostprin