The emotional modulation of attention by conditioned stimuli: cognitive and neural mechanisms

条件刺激对注意力的情绪调节：认知和神经机制

• 批准号: 341503-2007
• 负责人: Smith, Stephen
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Winnipeg
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=497149
• 关键词: emotional; modulation; attention; conditioned; stimuli

The ways in which we interact with the world, and even the ways in which we see the world, depend largely on how we focus our attention. For example, when attention is distracted, people often fail to notice even salient objects or events that appear right before their eyes. Many studies have investigated the ways in which attention is deployed and how it facilitates cognitive processing of abstract shapes and symbols. Such stimuli have been used because they are convenient and easy to study. However, humans live in a world laden with emotional meaning; the traditional use of meaningless stimuli (e.g., patterns and colors) does not reflect this fact and thus can tell us little about how people use emotional information to guide their attention to potentially important aspects of their environments.

我们与世界互动的方式，甚至我们看待世界的方式，很大程度上取决于我们如何集中注意力。 例如，当注意力被分散时，人们往往无法注意到甚至出现在他们眼前的显著物体或事件。 许多研究已经调查了注意力的部署方式以及它如何促进抽象形状和符号的认知处理。 使用这种刺激是因为它们方便且易于研究。然而，人类生活在一个充满情感意义的世界里;传统上使用无意义的刺激（例如，图案和颜色）并没有反映这一事实，因此不能告诉我们人们如何使用情感信息来引导他们的注意力到他们环境的潜在重要方面。