Can cognitive training increase the capacity of perceptual attention?

认知训练可以提高感知注意力的能力吗？

• 批准号: DP140100266
• 负责人: Prof Paul Dux
• 金额: $ 38.23万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140100266
• 关键词: cognitive; training; increase; capacity; perceptual

There has been an explosion of interest in the potential cognitive benefits of “brain training”. But scientific evidence for the generalizability of such benefits is controversial. Training has been argued to influence such operations as working memory, decision-making and intelligence. Only limited work has examined if training affects perceptual attention, which is important for awareness and is impaired in normal ageing and in many psychiatric and neurological disorders. The project examines whether perceptual attention can be trained, using a combination of behavioural measures, brain imaging and stimulation protocols, and computational modelling. The results will have important implications for psychological theories of attention.

人们对“大脑训练”的潜在认知益处产生了极大的兴趣。但是，科学证据的普遍性，这些好处是有争议的。训练被认为会影响工作记忆、决策和智力等操作。只有有限的工作，如果培训影响知觉注意力，这是重要的意识，并在正常老化和许多精神和神经系统疾病受损。该项目研究知觉注意力是否可以训练，使用行为措施，大脑成像和刺激协议，以及计算建模的组合。这些结果将对注意力的心理学理论产生重要影响。