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Emotion and decision making explained / Edmund T. Rolls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xvii, 710 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199659893
  • 9780199659890
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8232 23
LOC classification:
  • QP401 .R642 2014
Contents:
1. Introduction: The Issues -- 2. The Nature of Emotion -- 3. The Functions of Emotion: Reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design -- 4. The Brain Mechanisms Underlying Emotion -- 5. Food Reward Value, Pleasure, Hunger, and Appetite -- 6. Pharmacology of Emotion, Reward, and Addiction: The basal ganglia -- 7. Sexual Behaviour, Reward, and Brain Function: Sexual selection of behaviour -- 8. Decision-Making Mechanisms -- 9. Neuroeconomics and Decision-Making -- 10. Emotional Feelings and Consciousness: A theory of consciousness -- 11. Conclusions and Broader Issues -- -- A. Neural Networks and Emotion-Related Learning -- B. Decision-Making Models -- C. Glossary -- D. Colour Plates.
Summary: "What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of the genes, and does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to long-term plans and social contracts in the interests of the individual? This book seeks explanations of emotion and decision-making by considering these questions."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The Issues -- 2. The Nature of Emotion -- 3. The Functions of Emotion: Reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design -- 4. The Brain Mechanisms Underlying Emotion -- 5. Food Reward Value, Pleasure, Hunger, and Appetite -- 6. Pharmacology of Emotion, Reward, and Addiction: The basal ganglia -- 7. Sexual Behaviour, Reward, and Brain Function: Sexual selection of behaviour -- 8. Decision-Making Mechanisms -- 9. Neuroeconomics and Decision-Making -- 10. Emotional Feelings and Consciousness: A theory of consciousness -- 11. Conclusions and Broader Issues -- -- A. Neural Networks and Emotion-Related Learning -- B. Decision-Making Models -- C. Glossary -- D. Colour Plates.

"What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of the genes, and does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to long-term plans and social contracts in the interests of the individual? This book seeks explanations of emotion and decision-making by considering these questions."--Publisher's website.

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