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

动机、认知机制

• 批准号: 8319950
• 负责人: TODD S BRAVER
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8319950
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Affect; Affective; Age; Aging; Area; Attention; Automobile Driving; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Brain; Cognition; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communication; Decision Making; Dimensions; Discipline; Economics; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Episodic memory; Fertilization; Funding; Goals; Group Meetings; Impaired cognition; Individual Differences; Influentials; Interdisciplinary Communication; Intervention; Investigation; Journals; Knowledge; Longevity; Motivation; Nature; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Outcome; Participant; Personality; Play; Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychology; Quality of life; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; Rewards; Role; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Self Concept; Short-Term Memory; Structure; Unconscious State; Work; Writing; age group; age related; base; cognitive change; cognitive neuroscience; cognitive system; computational neuroscience; discounting; executive function; experience; graduate student; improved; information processing; meetings; psychologic; public health relevance; social; symposium; theories

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求为科学会议提供资金支持，该会议的重点是动机 - 认知互动机制。在过去的十年中，认知，系统和计算神经科学的进步以及社会，情感和人格心理学的进步已经振兴了动机的调查，这些进步开始阐述动机影响下层信息处理和高级目标行为的机制。然而，仍然是这样的研究 在各个学科工作的研究人员之间缺乏沟通和整合阻碍了领域。同时，以衰老为中心的研究也指出了 动机是一种潜在的综合构造，可以解释认知和社会情感功能中与年龄相关的变化的对比概况。我们建议这两个整合目标实际上是协同作用的。具体而言，对与年龄相关的心理功能变化的关注可能会提供一个独特的窗口，以整合动机影响的认知，神经生物学和社会情感成分。我们建议组织一次科学会议，该会议将动机认知研究的领先研究人员与老化的研究人员一起工作，这些研究人员在工作中明确采用了以动机为导向的观点。会议的目的是提供一个亲密而密集的论坛，以讨论最新研究，但更重要的是要增加基本和老龄化的研究人员与各种研究传统之间的基本和老化研究人员之间的合作。会议结束后，杂志的认知，情感和行为神经科学（CABN）将传播并吸引科学关注会议所涵盖的主题，并会见了参与者和其他征求的研究人员。本期的一篇盖石文章将是一部多著名的“宣言式”作品，该文章提出了最有希望的研究问题和策略，这些问题和策略可以通过基本和老龄化研究人员的跨学科团队进行最有效的研究，从而促进了此类团队的形成。 公共卫生相关性：该项目通过促进有关老年人的动机和目标如何改变的科学知识以及这些变化对认知，社会和情感功能的影响，对公共卫生具有很高的意义。对动机，情感，认知和衰老之间关系的增进理解对于制定干预措施至关重要，从而增强老年人的决策并改善后来几年的生活质量。