Exploration of Attentional Resource for Emotional Information: A Cognitive Neuroscience Study

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25730091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2015); Osaka University (2013-2014)
• Principal Investigator: Minamoto Takehiro 国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, 脳情報通信融合研究センター 脳情報通信融合研究室, 協力研究員 (40611306)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 感情 / 注意資源 / 脳活動 / 前部帯状回

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The latest research on selective attention has shown category- or modality-based attention resource, which is theorized as the specialized cognitive load theory. Those research have focused on visual or verbal attentional resource; however, few studies have investigated the resource for emotional information. The present study proposed the valence-based attentional resource for emotional information in which attentional resource is separately equipped based on emotional valence (i.e., positive or negative), and tested the hypothesis using the methods established in fields of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
The results showed that attentional resource for emotional information is limited by not emotional valence but emotional intensity, meaning valence-general attentional resource.

Free Research Field

認知神経科学