Modelling the interaction of attention and emotion

We review a recently developed engineering control approach to attention, presenting detailed attention control function assignments to the wealth of brain modules experimentally observed. The control system is extended to include biasing by emotional valence, with qualitative analysis given of a range of emotion paradigms and more detailed simulation described for two further paradigms. The implications of these results for better understanding of the interaction of emotion and attention concludes the paper, and in, particular gives a possible resolution of the question as to unaware versus aware processing of emotional material.