Descripción del proyecto
Conocimientos mecanicistas sobre las emociones y el comportamiento
Las emociones desempeñan un papel esencial a la hora de guiar el comportamiento, ya que ayudan a las personas a tomar decisiones complejas y priorizar acciones en su día a día. Si bien reducen la carga cognitiva asociada a la evaluación de todas las opciones posibles, se sabe poco sobre los mecanismos subyacentes. El proyecto EMOBB, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, tiene por objeto determinar la relación entre las emociones y el comportamiento autoorganizado en entornos naturales. El equipo de investigación empleará una plataforma de videojuegos para recopilar datos reales sobre el comportamiento y los rasgos emocionales individuales. Además, empleará la imagenología y la estimulación transcraneal no invasiva para conocer mejor el papel de las redes neuronales. En conjunto, la investigación contribuirá a modelizar la interacción entre las emociones y el comportamiento a nivel neuronal y personal.
Objetivo
Deciding what to do when for how long self-organizing ones behaviour is an important feature of daily life. Emotions arise providing short-cuts for the computational complexities. Yet, we still know relatively little about the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms. EMOBB will establish the computational, cognitive and neural underpinnings of the rich interplay between emotions and self-organized behaviour in naturalistic environments overcoming three key challenges.
First, previous work has almost exclusively relied on tasks structured into experimenter determined trials thus how people self-organized behaviour could not be measured. To overcome this, EMOBB will combine novel naturalistic tasks in which people have freedom what to do when for how long with subjective and objective measures of emotions. This will be made possible through a computational modelling approach that allows dissecting and quantifying even complex behaviour-emotion interactions. Second, many previous decision-making tasks have limited relevance for real-life cognition and individual differences. EMOBB will address this by relating the computational task measures to individual differences in real-life behaviours and emotional traits. This effort will culminate in the creation of a video game platform providing a large population benchmark. Third, brain imaging has primarily relied on correlations, often focusing on individual regions. EMOBB will go beyond this testing the causal role of brain networks and their shifting compositions to cognitive state changes combining functional magnetic resonance brain imaging and non-invasive ultrasound brain stimulation.
While the challenges are important by themselves, combining all aspects in one project will allow a breakthrough in our understanding across all levels from neural underpinning to individual differences. Specifically, it will deliver a model of naturalistic emotion-behaviour interplay and its mediating brain mechanisms
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
75654 Paris
Francia