Understanding and modifying mind wandering

理解和改变走神

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-06749
• 负责人: Carriere, Jonathan
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Bishop's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=631380
• 关键词: Understanding; modifying; mind; wandering

Attention is difficult to sustain for extended periods of time, and often difficult to sustain for even a few minutes. As a result most people find their thoughts regularly drift away from what they are supposed to be doing to other pressing concerns. While we know maintaining attention is difficult, we do not yet fully understand why this is the case, or what we can do about it. The primary goal for the proposed research is therefore to better understand the basic mechanisms supporting the maintenance of attention. Beyond simple identification and understanding of these basic mechanisms, however, the proposed research also holds the potential to reduce the frequency of catastrophic mistakes that occur as a result of inattention – such as car accidents and train crashes. This research program is divided into three related phases, designed to first identify important characteristics of the link between attention (a mental state) and physical, observable, behaviour. Later, these characteristics afford improved identification and manipulation of attention.

注意力很难维持很长一段时间，甚至很难维持几分钟。因此，大多数人发现他们的思想经常从他们应该做的事情转移到其他紧迫的问题上。虽然我们知道保持注意力是困难的，但我们还不完全理解为什么会这样，或者我们能做些什么。因此，拟议研究的主要目标是更好地了解支持保持注意力的基本机制。然而，除了对这些基本机制的简单识别和理解之外，拟议的研究还可能减少由于疏忽而发生的灾难性错误的频率-例如车祸和火车相撞。该研究计划分为三个相关阶段，旨在首先确定注意力（一种精神状态）与身体，可观察行为之间联系的重要特征。后来，这些特征提供了改进的识别和操纵的注意力。