MECHANISMS OF MOTIVATION, COGNITION & AGING INTERACTIONS: SMALL-GROUP MEETING

动机、认知机制

• 批准号: 8319950
• 负责人: TODD S BRAVER
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8319950
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Affect; Affective; Age; Aging; Area; Attention; Automobile Driving; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Brain; Cognition; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communication; Decision Making; Dimensions; Discipline; Economics; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Episodic memory; Fertilization; Funding; Goals; Group Meetings; Impaired cognition; Individual Differences; Influentials; Interdisciplinary Communication; Intervention; Investigation; Journals; Knowledge; Longevity; Motivation; Nature; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Outcome; Participant; Personality; Play; Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychology; Quality of life; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; Rewards; Role; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Self Concept; Short-Term Memory; Structure; Unconscious State; Work; Writing; age group; age related; base; cognitive change; cognitive neuroscience; cognitive system; computational neuroscience; discounting; executive function; experience; graduate student; improved; information processing; meetings; psychologic; public health relevance; social; symposium; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funding support for a scientific meeting focused on Mechanisms of Motivation- Cognition-Aging Interactions. In the last decade, investigations of motivation have been revitalized by progress in cognitive, systems, and computational neuroscience as well as by social, affective, and personality psychology, that begin to elaborate the mechanisms by which motivation influences both lower-level information processing and higher-level goal-directed behaviors. Yet it is still the case that research in this area has been impeded by a lack of communication and integration among investigators working in various disciplines. In parallel, aging-focused research has also pointed to the role of motivation as a potentially integrative construct that may explain the contrasting profiles of age-related change in cognitive vs. socioemotional functioning. We suggest that the two integration goals are, in fact, synergistic. Specifically, a focus on age-related changes in psychological functioning may provide a unique window from which to integrate cognitive, neurobiological, and socio-emotional components of motivational influence. We propose to organize a scientific meeting that brings the leading researchers working at the forefront of motivation-cognition research together with aging researchers that have been explicitly adopting a motivation-oriented perspective in their work. The purpose of the meeting will be to provide an intimate and intensive forum from which to discuss the latest research, but more importantly to increase inter-disciplinary communication and collaboration between basic and aging-focused investigators from various research traditions. Following the conference, a special issue of the journal Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN) will disseminate and attract scientific attention to the topics covered in the meeting, with submissions coming from meeting participants and other solicited investigators. A capstone article in this issue will be a multi-authored "manifesto-type" piece, which lays out the most promising research questions and strategies that can be most productively investigated via inter-disciplinary teams of basic and aging researchers, thus facilitating the formation of such teams. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project has high relevance for public health by advancing scientific knowledge regarding how motivations and goals change in older adults, and the implications of these changes for cognitive, social, and emotional functioning. An improved understanding of the relationship between motivation, emotion, cognition, and aging will be critically important in developing interventions that enhance older adults' decision-making and improve quality of life in the later years.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案请求为一次重点关注动机-认知-衰老相互作用机制的科学会议提供资金支持。在过去的十年中，由于认知、系统和计算神经科学以及社会、情感和人格心理学的进步，对动机的研究重新焕发了活力，这些研究开始详细阐述动机影响低级信息处理和信息处理的机制。更高层次的目标导向行为。然而这方面的研究仍然是这样 由于不同学科的调查人员之间缺乏沟通和整合，该领域的工作受到阻碍。与此同时，以老龄化为重点的研究也指出了 动机作为一种潜在的整合结构，可以解释与年龄相关的认知与社会情感功能变化的对比特征。我们认为，这两个一体化目标实际上是相辅相成的。具体来说，关注与年龄相关的心理功能变化可能会提供一个独特的窗口，从中整合动机影响的认知、神经生物学和社会情感组成部分。我们建议组织一次科学会议，将在动机认知研究前沿工作的领先研究人员与在工作中明确采用动机导向观点的老年研究人员聚集在一起。会议的目的是提供一个亲密而深入的论坛来讨论最新的研究，但更重要的是增加来自不同研究传统的基础研究和老龄化研究人员之间的跨学科交流与合作。会议结束后，认知、情感和行为神经科学 (CABN) 杂志的特刊将传播并吸引科学界对会议所涵盖主题的关注，会议参与者和其他受邀研究人员将提交意见书。本期的一篇顶峰文章将是一篇多人撰写的“宣言式”文章，其中列出了最有前途的研究问题和策略，可以通过基础和老龄研究人员的跨学科团队进行最富有成效的研究，从而促进形成这样的团队。 公共卫生相关性：该项目通过推进有关老年人动机和目标如何变化以及这些变化对认知、社会和情感功能的影响的科学知识，与公共卫生具有高度相关性。更好地理解动机、情绪、认知和衰老之间的关系对于制定增强老年人决策和改善晚年生活质量的干预措施至关重要。