MECHANISMS OF MOTIVATION, COGNITION & AGING INTERACTIONS: SMALL-GROUP MEETING

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求为一个专注于动机-认知-衰老相互作用机制的科学会议提供资金支持。在过去的十年里，随着认知、系统和计算神经科学以及社会、情感和人格心理学的进步，动机的研究重新焕发了活力，这些研究开始详细阐述动机影响低层次信息处理和高层次目标导向行为的机制。然而，这方面的研究仍然是如此， 由于从事不同学科工作的调查人员之间缺乏沟通和融合，这一领域的工作受到阻碍。与此同时，以衰老为重点的研究也指出了 动机作为一个潜在的综合结构，可以解释认知与社会情感功能的年龄相关变化的对比概况。我们认为，这两个一体化目标实际上是协同的。具体来说，对心理功能中与年龄相关的变化的关注可以提供一个独特的窗口，从中整合认知，神经生物学和社会情感成分的动机影响。我们建议组织一次科学会议，将在动机认知研究前沿工作的主要研究人员与在工作中明确采用动机导向视角的老龄化研究人员聚集在一起。会议的目的将是提供一个亲密和密集的论坛，讨论最新的研究，但更重要的是增加跨学科的沟通和合作之间的基础和老龄化为重点的研究人员从各种研究传统。会议结束后，《认知、情感和行为神经科学》（CABN）杂志的一期特刊将传播并吸引科学界对会议所涵盖主题的关注，会议参与者和其他应邀调查人员将提交意见。在这个问题的顶点文章将是一个多作者的“宣言型”的一块，其中列出了最有前途的研究问题和策略，可以通过跨学科的基础和老龄化研究人员的团队进行最有效的调查，从而促进了这样的团队的形成。 公共卫生相关性：该项目通过推进有关老年人动机和目标如何变化的科学知识，以及这些变化对认知，社会和情感功能的影响，对公共卫生具有高度的相关性。更好地理解动机，情绪，认知和衰老之间的关系将是至关重要的，在制定干预措施，提高老年人的决策和改善晚年的生活质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funding support for a scientific meeting focused on Mechanisms of Motivation- Cognition-Aging Interactions. In the last decade, investigations of motivation have been revitalized by progress in cognitive, systems, and computational neuroscience as well as by social, affective, and personality psychology, that begin to elaborate the mechanisms by which motivation influences both lower-level information processing and higher-level goal-directed behaviors. Yet it is still the case that research in this area has been impeded by a lack of communication and integration among investigators working in various disciplines. In parallel, aging-focused research has also pointed to the role of motivation as a potentially integrative construct that may explain the contrasting profiles of age-related change in cognitive vs. socioemotional functioning. We suggest that the two integration goals are, in fact, synergistic. Specifically, a focus on age-related changes in psychological functioning may provide a unique window from which to integrate cognitive, neurobiological, and socio-emotional components of motivational influence. We propose to organize a scientific meeting that brings the leading researchers working at the forefront of motivation-cognition research together with aging researchers that have been explicitly adopting a motivation-oriented perspective in their work. The purpose of the meeting will be to provide an intimate and intensive forum from which to discuss the latest research, but more importantly to increase inter-disciplinary communication and collaboration between basic and aging-focused investigators from various research traditions. Following the conference, a special issue of the journal Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN) will disseminate and attract scientific attention to the topics covered in the meeting, with submissions coming from meeting participants and other solicited investigators. A capstone article in this issue will be a multi-authored "manifesto-type" piece, which lays out the most promising research questions and strategies that can be most productively investigated via inter-disciplinary teams of basic and aging researchers, thus facilitating the formation of such teams. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project has high relevance for public health by advancing scientific knowledge regarding how motivations and goals change in older adults, and the implications of these changes for cognitive, social, and emotional functioning. An improved understanding of the relationship between motivation, emotion, cognition, and aging will be critically important in developing interventions that enhance older adults' decision-making and improve quality of life in the later years.