Emotion's Impact on Mechanisms of Conscious Perception
Description: Project Narrative Most aspects of the environment resonate with emotional meaning, so an understanding of perception in the real world necessitates understanding how it is impacted by emotion. By testing hypotheses about how emotion affects conscious perception, this project will elucidate mechanisms underlying emotion-related individual differences in how people literally see the world. In addition to informing theories about emotion-perception interactions, insights into how basic perceptual functions are influenced by emotion can provide clues regarding important visual cognitive differences between healthy populations and those with emotional disorders. Ultimately, such insights can potentially point the way towards effective treatments for emotional disorders, whether through targeted cognitive exercises, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or drug treatment (as different perceptual processes can be linked to different neural and neuro-chemical underpinnings).
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R03
Start date: 2010-07-15
End date: 2012-06-30
Investigator: STEVEN B. MOST (lead)
Institution: University of Delaware
Funded outputs count: 9
Funder award ID: R03MH091526
OpenAlex ID: G37220174