Aspects of Attention and Adaptive Memory

这一建议继续了我对负责注意力的系统和负责更高级别处理的系统的研究，例如通过记忆提取识别意义和“客观性”。此次拨款申请重点关注两个方向的互动。首先，注意力的分配(或缺乏)如何影响我们处理意义的能力？尽管长期以来的观点一直认为，识别许多刺激(例如，单词)的意义是自动的，可以在没有注意力的情况下完成，但最近的研究正在挑战这一观点。我将继续询问刺激是否有必要成为关注的焦点，以便我们能够理解其身份并对其进行评估，我还将研究在某些特定情况下，是否可以在不应用焦点关注的情况下发现许多此类信息。

This proposal continues my study of the systems responsible for attention and those responsible for higher-level processing such as the recognition of meaning and "object-ness," via memory retrieval.  This grant application focuses on the interaction from two directions.  First, how does the allocation of attention (or lack thereof) affect our ability to process meaning?  Although the longstanding view has been that recognizing the meaning of many stimuli (e.g., words) is automatic, and can be accomplished in the absence of attention, more recent work is challenging this view.  I will continue to ask whether it is necessary for a stimulus to be the focus of attention in order for us to be able to apprehend its identity and evaluate it, and I will also examine whether there are particular cases in which much of this information can be uncovered without the application of focal attention.