How the brain resolves motivational conflict

大脑如何解决动机冲突

• 批准号: DP200102576
• 负责人: Prof Gavan McNally
• 金额: $ 38.45万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200102576
• 关键词: How; brain; resolves; motivational; conflict

This project aims to map the mechanisms by which motivational conflict shapes our behaviours, decisions, and choices. By combining state of the art approaches from neuroscience with theoretically driven approaches from experimental psychology and associative learning, this project expects to provide new mechanistic knowledge about how the brain resolves motivational conflict, from cells to circuits to behaviour, and it expects to enhance Australia's research capacity in psychology. This should provide significant benefits including providing a new knowledge base advancing theories of associative learning, motivation and decision-making, as well as laying a new basic science platform for understanding emotional resilience.

这个项目旨在描绘动机冲突塑造我们的行为、决策和选择的机制。通过将神经科学的最新方法与实验心理学和联想学习的理论驱动方法相结合，该项目有望提供有关大脑如何解决从细胞到电路再到行为的动机冲突的新机械知识，并有望增强澳大利亚的心理学研究能力。这应该会带来重大的好处，包括提供一个新的知识基础，促进联想学习、动机和决策的理论，以及为理解情绪弹性奠定一个新的基础科学平台。