Understanding Cognition-Emotion Interactions in Attention and Memory: An Integrative Approach

在过去的十年里，人们对认知和情绪之间的相互作用产生了极大的兴趣，这是因为人们认识到这项研究对基础和临床科学的重要意义。神经成像研究已经确定了几个参与调节认知-情绪相互作用的大脑系统(例如，Anderson Pessoa，2013；Vuilleumier，2005)，这对这些现象的证据起到了重要作用。研究人员已经证明，在各种各样的条件下，情感刺激比情感中性刺激更容易被注意和记忆(例如，Murphy Sears，Thomas，LeHuquet，Yend，2010)。研究人员还表明，我们经历的情绪变化可以影响我们感知世界的方式、我们处理世界的方式以及我们记忆世界的方式(例如，Dolcos，2010；Eich，Gerairts，School oler，例如Newman&Sears，2015)，以及对比自然情绪变化的个体的实验(例如，在积极和消极情绪的测量上得分高或低的个体；例如，Arndt，Newman&Sears，2014)。在许多实验中，我们会在参与者参观实验室的1-2周后进行附带再认测试，以检验对情绪刺激的注意力和记忆之间的因果关系。这些研究将极大地促进研究者对注意、记忆和情绪如何整合到人类认知中的理解，并将对现有理论和新理论的发展产生重大影响。

During the past decade there has been a great deal of interest in the interactions between cognition andemotion, which has been driven by the recognition of the important implications of this research for both basicand clinical sciences. Neuroimaging studies have identified several brain systems involved in mediatingcognition-emotion interactions (e.g., Anderson Pessoa, 2013; Vuilleumier, 2005), which hascontributed to the weight of evidence for these phenomena. Researchers have shown that emotional stimuli areattended to more and remembered better than affectively neutral stimuli, under a wide variety of conditions(e.g., Murphy Sears, Thomas, LeHuquet, Yiend, 2010). Researchershave also shown that the shifts in mood we experience can affect the way we perceive the world, the way weattend to it, and how we remember it (e.g., Dolcos, 2010; Eich, Geraerts, Schooler, e.g., Newman & Sears, 2015), and experimentscontrasting individuals varying in naturally occurring moods (e.g., individuals scoring high or low onmeasures of positive and negative mood; e.g., Arndt, Newman, & Sears, 2014). In many experimentswe will examine the casual relations between attention and memory for emotional stimuli by administeringtests of incidental recognition 1-2 weeks after a participant’s lab visit. These studies will significantly advanceresearchers’ understanding of how attention, memory, and emotion are integrated in human cognition, and willhave significant implications for existing theories and new theory development.