How the emotional state of the observer impacts basic visual attention mechanisms

我的研究项目旨在了解人类视觉注意力的基本机制。注意力是人类认知的一个基本方面，它使人们能够做出连贯和适应性的行为。它优先处理我们大脑处理的信息，有利于处理与目标相关的重要信息。更具体地说，我调查情绪和注意力的过程是如何协调和结合，以影响行为。我最近开始研究一个人的情绪倾向和认知策略如何影响这些刺激吸引注意力的程度。在这里，我的目标是在这些关键进展的基础上再接再厉。拟议的研究计划将检查一个人的内部情绪和动机状态对他们的注意力过程的影响。特别是，我将研究观察者的当前状态如何影响他们将注意力分配给情绪中性和情绪显著刺激的能力。这种全面而系统的研究将为情绪和注意力如何相互交织以及它们如何影响人类的感知和认知提供新的视角。

My research program is aimed at understanding the basic mechanisms of human visual attention. Attention is a fundamental aspect of human cognition that enables coherent and adaptive behaviour. It prioritizes the information that our brain processes, favouring the processing of goal-relevant and salient information. More specifically, I investigate how emotion and attention processes are coordinated and combined to influence behaviour. I have recently begun to study how the emotional disposition and the cognitive strategy of a person influence the extent to which such stimuli attract attention. Here, I aim to build on these critical advances. The proposed research program will examine the effect of the internal emotional and motivational state of a person on their attention processes. In particular, I will investigate how the current state of an observer affects their ability to allocate attention to both emotionally neutral and emotionally significant stimuli. This comprehensive and systematic investigation will shed new light on precisely how emotion and attention are intertwined and how they influence human perception and cognition.