Moodsals
Moodsals are a proposed neuropsychological construct describing transient, self-sustaining affective states that modulate both mood and the salience of environmental stimuli. They are distinct from short-lived emotions and from general mood in that they persist beyond immediate events and bias information processing toward or away from particular cues.
The term blends mood with salience and appears in theoretical discussions of affect regulation and computational
In models, moodsals can last from several hours to days; they influence perception, memory encoding for emotionally
In psychology and psychiatry, moodsals have been proposed as a framework for understanding mood fluctuation in