CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF EMOTION AND ATTENTION

情绪和注意力心理生理学研究中心 （CPSEA）。 P. J. Lang将担任董事， 主要的研究和管理地点将在大学， 佛罗里达，盖恩斯维尔。 该中心的主要目标是研究情感 刺激处理的所有直接可测量的表现形式--例如， 作为生理反应的模式（内脏，神经肌肉， 皮层电）、情感报告和行为。 重要的进一步 目的是评估情绪反应，因为它与注意力相互作用， 需求-因为注意力是由刺激特征，任务和 上下文 拟议的研究将研究情感反应如何变化 有不同的感官输入渠道，指令，符号或 虚拟呈现和呈现媒介。 发现是 从当前大脑理论的角度来解释 作为一个信息处理机构， 大脑的功能电化学和解剖学知识。 我们 目的是促进情感领域的广泛研究; 通过分享方法和发现，鼓励情感的发展 研究作为可复制的自然科学在这个国家， 国际上;此外，支持和鼓励 将获得的新的基础科学知识应用于 心理健康和社会问题研究的实践领域。

A Center for Psychophysiological Research in Emotion and Attention (CPSEA) is proposed. P.J. Lang will serve as its director, and the primary research and administrative site will be at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The broad aim of the center is to study emotional stimulus processing in all its directly measurable manifestations--e.g., as patterns of physiological reactivity (visceral, neuromuscular, and electrocortical), affective reports, and behavior. An important further aim is to assess emotional reactivity as it interacts with attentional demands--as attention is modulated by stimulus characteristics, task, and context. Proposed research will examine how affective responding varies with different channels of sensory input, instructions, symbolic or virtual representation, and medium of presentation. Findings are interpreted both in the terms of current theoretical views of the brain as an organ for information processing and in the context of developing knowledge of the brain's functional electro-chemistry and anatomy. Our intention is to facilitate research broadly in the field of emotion; to encourage through shared methods and findings, the development of emotion studies as replicable natural science within this country and internationally; and furthermore, to support and encourage the application of the acquired new, basic scientific knowledge in the practical arenas of mental health and the study of social problems.