Attention and intrinsic rewards in the control of psychophysiologic states.
Attention is a process which regulates the information obtained from a stimulus. In this paper I view selective attention as a means of arriving at different psychophysiologic states. Special consideration is given to the self-regulation of enjoyment by selective attention to intrinsically rewarding activities.
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology