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，这是由于认识到这一研究对基础科学和临床科学的重要意义。神经影像学研究已经确定了几个参与调解认知-情绪相互作用的大脑系统（例如，Anderson Pessoa, 2013; Vuilleumier, 2005），这有助于这些现象的证据权重。研究人员已经表明，在各种各样的条件下，情绪刺激比情感中性刺激更容易被关注和记住。（Murphy Sears, Thomas, LeHuquet, Yiend, 2010）。研究人员还表明，我们所经历的情绪变化会影响我们感知世界的方式，我们关注世界的方式，以及我们如何记住它（例如，Dolcos, 2010; Eich, Geraerts, Schooler，例如，Newman & Sears, 2015），以及对比个体自然发生情绪变化的实验（例如，个体在积极情绪和消极情绪的测量中得分高或低；例如，Arndt, Newman, & Sears, 2014）。在许多实验中，我们将通过在参与者访问实验室1-2周后进行偶然识别测试来检查情绪刺激的注意和记忆之间的偶然关系。这些研究将极大地促进研究者对注意力、记忆和情感如何在人类认知中整合的理解，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.