Accession Number:

ADA172085

Title:

Cognitive Science Program. The Concept of Energy in Psychological Theory.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

OREGON UNIV EUGENE DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Personal Author(s):

• Posner,Michael I.
• Rothbart,Mary K.

Report Date:

1986-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

We seek to understand the integration of computational information processing concepts of cognition and energetics arousal, emotion, temperament. We briefly outline the traditions out of which concepts of cognition and energetics arise. We argue that the integration of these concepts is best done at the level of the component facilitations and inhibitions describing elementary cognitive operations modulated by midbrain arousal systems. We explore this integration for the area of selective attention by defining a hierarchical selective attensystem in terms of its mental operations and the neural systems supporting them. Author

Descriptors:

• *COGNITION
• *BEHAVIOR
• *INFORMATION PROCESSING
• *EMOTIONS
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• ENERGY
• MOTIVATION
• NEUROLOGY
• ATTENTION
• NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
• ADJUSTMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
• DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
• MENTAL DISORDERS

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE