The Future of Visual Attention

 描述(由申请人提供)：长期以来，人们一直认识到注意力是视觉的核心组成部分，它深刻地影响着感知。例如，当观察者将注意力集中在单个对象上时，例如在拥挤的派对上的朋友，这可能导致几乎完全过滤背景。由于注意力研究在认知神经科学中的早期和重要作用，注意力研究一直是我们研究大脑的核心，并推动了几种研究大脑的创新方法，包括功能磁共振成像、脑电、单位生理学和数学技术。最近的实验表明，注意力对大脑功能的作用比最初意识到的更普遍，在决策、执行控制、社交和形式视觉等其他领域发挥着关键作用。这次会议的目标是将研究注意力和相关领域的不同学者聚集在一起，他们采取独特的、不同的、创造性的和面向未来的方法来解决这个问题。会议的主要焦点将是用于分析神经数据的新的多变量技术，包括觅食和社会注意在内的自然行为，注意力和学习之间的关系，以及探索不同系统中的注意力，包括婴儿和患者群体。我们希望我们的会议将有助于为注意力和相关领域的未来20年或25年的研究制定议程。因为它的方向性 面向未来，我们提案的一个关键组成部分将是博士后和研究生的密切参与，并明确关注吸引不同的参与者群体。我们将通过旅游奖励吸引博士后和学生。我们将安排两次简短的数据闪电战，一次是为博士后，另一次是为研究生。我们将与SFN的罗切斯特分会一起主办职业圆桌会议。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It has long been appreciated that attention is a core component of vision and that it profoundly influences perception. For example, when an observer focuses their attention on a single object, such as a friend at a crowded party, this can lead to an almost complete filtering of the background. Because of its early and important role in cognitive neuroscience, attention research has remained central to our study of the brain and has pushed forward several innovative methods for studying the brain including fMRI, EEG, single unit physiology, and mathematical techniques. More recent experiments have suggested that the role of attention is more ubiquitous to brain function than originally appreciated, playin a key role in other domains such as decision-making, executive control, social interaction, and form vision. The goal of this conference is to bring together a diverse group of scholars who study attention and related areas - but who take unique, different, creative, and future-oriented approaches to the problem. Key foci for the meeting will be new multivariate techniques for analysis of neural data, naturalistic behaviors including foraging and social attention, the relationship between attention and learning, and exploration of attention in diverse systems, including babies and patient populations. We hope our meeting will serve to lay out an agenda for the next 20 or 25 years of research in attention and related fields. Because of its orientation towards the future, a key ingredient of our proposal will be the close involvement of post-docs and graduate students, and the explicit focus on attracting a diverse group of attendees. We will attract post-docs and students with travel awards. We will arrange two short format data blitzes, one for post-docs and another for graduate students. We will host a careers roundtable in conjunction with the Rochester Chapter of the SFN.