PROBING EMOTION THROUGH TIME--AFFECT & RESOURCE ALLOCATION

这项研究的目的是评估注意力的影响。 以及情绪对惊厥和RT探针反应的调节 在接受情绪提示之前、期间和之后的时间性变化 并作为物理、语义和注意力差异的函数 前台信息。过去的研究表明，这种惊吓 反射是由注意力和情绪调节的，而反应时 二次探测任务经常被用来跟踪注意 分配。在这里，我们评估了对惊吓和RT探针的响应 因为它们随着注意力需求和情感环境的不同而变化。一个 本项目的重点是响应的时间属性 在处理间隔中提前探测和延迟探测。确定时间 在处理这些过程中的探测响应的过程和性质 情感刺激将为以下方面提供坚实的经验基础 随后使用探测方法学作为注意力的衡量标准 不同任务加工过程中的分配和情绪投入 媒体，并将允许评估关于 探测的注意和情感调节机制 回应。例如，这里提出的实验数据将 允许评估有关预先注意和无意识的问题 情感信息的处理，以及关于何时 如果认知先于情感。关于以下问题的经典辩论 刺激评估及其对后续情感反应的影响 通过测量自愿(RT)和非自愿的开始时间来评估 (反射)反映加工的情感方面的探测反应。 综上所述，这里提出的研究对 情绪研究的方法论和参数方面的进展，如 以及对动机和注意力理论的具体影响。

The goal of the research proposed here is to assess effects of attention and emotion on the modulation of startle and RT probe responses as they vary temporally before, during, and after exposure to emotional prompts and as a function of physical, semantic, and attentional differences in foreground information. Past research has indicated that the startle reflex is modulated both by attention and emotion, whereas RT in a secondary probe tasks has often been used to track attentional allocation. Here, response to both startle and RT probes are assessed as they vary with attentional demands and affective context. A particular focus in this project is on temporal properties of responses probed early and late in a processing interval. Determining the time course and nature of probe response in the context of processing these affective stimuli will provide a strong empirical foundation for the subsequent use of probe methodology as a measure of attentional allocation and emotional engagement during processing of a variety of media, and will allow evaluation of competing hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying attentional and affective modulation of probe responses. For instance, data from the experiments proposed here will allow an assessment of questions concerning pre-attentive and unconscious processing of affective information, as well as questions concerning when and if cognition precedes emotion. The classic debate concerning stimulus appraisal and its impact on subsequent affective response can be evaluated by measuring the onset of voluntary (RT) and involuntary (reflex) probe responses that reflect affective facets of processing. Taken together, the research proposed here has broad implications for both methodological and parametric advances in the study of emotion, as well as specific ramifications for theories of motivation and attention.