11:06 a.m., Sept. 29, 2009----Steven Most, assistant professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Psychology, will deliver the next presentation in the Cognitive Science Colloquium series at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, in Room 202 Smith Hall.

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Most will speak on the topic “How Expectation, Motivation and Emotion Drive Conscious Experience.”

In an abstract on the presentation, Most said, “Your mind doesn't always see what your eyes see. Despite deeply held intuitions, conscious perception does not depend solely on where we turn our eyes. Rather, it is robustly influenced by expectations, motivations, and even emotions.”

Given that people navigate the world with different priorities in mind and with different "affective styles,” understanding such mechanisms can provide insight into why different people can witness the same event while perceiving and remembering it differently, Most said.

He said he plans to “describe work in my lab that investigates how expectations, motivations, and emotions help drive perception and memory.”