Eyes on the prize: Investigating attentional economics

我们的生活被与回报和风险有关的刺激所包围(广告、游戏、社交媒体等)。最近的研究表明，学习有关回报和风险的知识会影响我们的注意力，尽管我们通常会尽最大努力。这个项目将建立在最近开发的程序的基础上，使用眼球跟踪来调查关于回报和风险的学习是如何调节我们关注什么和忽略什么的。研究结果将被用来开发“注意力经济学”的计算模型，该模型解释并预测我们何时会被与奖励和风险相关的刺激分散注意力。这项研究将提升澳大利亚认知心理学的世界级地位，并将揭示与成瘾和相关行为有关的过程。

We spend our lives surrounded by stimuli relating to reward and risk (adverts, games, social media etc). Recent research suggests that learning about reward and risk influences our attention, often despite our best efforts. This project will build on recently developed procedures using eye-tracking to investigate how learning about reward and risk modulates what we pay attention to, and what we ignore. Findings will be used to develop computational models of ‘attentional economics’ that account for, and predict, when we will be distracted by reward- and risk-related stimuli. This research will enhance the world-class status of Australian cognitive psychology, and will shed light on processes implicated in addiction and related behaviours.