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Exploring the Interaction of the Human Attention and Emotion: Brain-Behaviour Relationships

ReferenceBBS/B/16186
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Martin Eimer
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution Birkbeck College
DepartmentPsychological Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 167,223
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/10/2004
End date 30/09/2007
Duration36 months

Abstract

The goal of the proposed research is to investigate how brain systems for attention and emotion interact and determine behaviour. Using four levels of analysis (behaviour, electrophysiology, functional neuroimaging, and neural network modelling) we will explore how visual attention impacts emotional response. Using visual search and attentional blink procedures, we will manipulate attention and then, later, measure emotional responses to previously attended v. not attended stimuli. Human and model behaviour will be correlated with electrophysiological and imaging data so that brain-behaviour relationships can be elucidated. Both faces and abstract patterns will be used as stimuli. (Joint with BBS/B/16194, BBS/B/16747 and BBS/B/16178).

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Committee Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative Integrative Analysis of Brain and Behaviour (IABB) [2003]
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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