Aspects of Attention and Adaptive Memory

这个建议继续了我对负责注意力的系统和负责更高层次处理的系统的研究，例如通过记忆检索识别意义和“对象性”。 本基金申请侧重于两个方向的互动。 首先，注意力的分配（或缺乏注意力）如何影响我们处理意义的能力？ 虽然长期以来的观点是，认识到许多刺激的意义（例如，虽然语言（如文字）是自动的，并且可以在没有注意的情况下完成，但最近的研究正在挑战这一观点。 我将继续追问，刺激是否有必要成为注意力的焦点，以便我们能够理解它的身份并对其进行评估，我还将考察是否存在某些特殊情况，在这些情况下，许多信息可以在不应用焦点注意力的情况下被发现。

This proposal continues my study of the systems responsible for attention and those responsible for higher-level processing such as the recognition of meaning and "object-ness," via memory retrieval.  This grant application focuses on the interaction from two directions.  First, how does the allocation of attention (or lack thereof) affect our ability to process meaning?  Although the longstanding view has been that recognizing the meaning of many stimuli (e.g., words) is automatic, and can be accomplished in the absence of attention, more recent work is challenging this view.  I will continue to ask whether it is necessary for a stimulus to be the focus of attention in order for us to be able to apprehend its identity and evaluate it, and I will also examine whether there are particular cases in which much of this information can be uncovered without the application of focal attention.