Emotion and decision making explained / Edmund T. Rolls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolls, Edmund T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Physiological aspects.

Emotions.

Decision making--Physiological aspects.

Decision making.

Computational neuroscience.

Neurophysiology.

Neuropsychology.

Emotions--physiology.

Decision Making--physiology.

Brain--physiology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Emotions--physiology.

Decision Making--physiology.

Brain--physiology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Neurophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 710 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What produces emotions? Why and 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 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 and other questions.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; Appendix 4 Colour Plates; 1 Introduction: the issues; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Rewards and punishers, and learning about rewardsand punishers: instrumental learning andstimulus-reinforcer association learning; 1.3 The approaches taken to emotion and motivation: their causes, functions, adaptive value, and brain mechanisms; 1.4 Reward, punishment, emotion, and motivation: the plan of the book; 2 The nature of emotion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The outline of a theory of emotion; 2.3 Different emotions; 2.4 Refinements of the theory of emotion

2.5 Summary of the classification of emotion2.6 Other theories of emotion; 2.6.1 The James-Lange and other bodily theories of emotion including Damasio's theory ; 2.6.2 Appraisal theory; 2.6.3 Dimensional and categorical theories of emotion; 2.6.4 Other approaches to emotion; 2.7 Individual differences in emotion, personality, and emotional intelligence; 2.8 Cognition and emotion; 2.9 Emotion, motivation, reward, and mood; 2.10 Is the concept of emotion still useful when we understand its mechanisms?; 2.11 Advantages of the approach to emotion described here (Rolls' theory of emotion)

3 The functions of emotion: reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Brain design and the functions of emotion; 3.2.1 Taxes, rewards, and punishers: gene-specified goals for actions, and the flexibility of actions; 3.2.2 Explicit systems, language, and reinforcement; 3.2.3 Special-purpose design by an external agent vs evolution by natural selection ; 3.3 Selection of behaviour: cost-benefit 'analysis' of net value; 3.4 Further functions of emotion; 3.4.1 Autonomic and endocrine responses

3.4.2 Flexibility of behavioural responses, because emotions are related to the rewards and punishers that specify the goals for action3.4.3 Emotional states are motivating; 3.4.4 Communication; 3.4.5 Social attachment; 3.4.6 Separate functions for each different primary reinforcer; 3.4.7 The mood state can influence the cognitive evaluation of moods or memories; 3.4.8 Facilitation of memory storage; 3.4.9 Emotional and mood states are persistent, and help to produce persistent motivation; 3.4.10 Emotions may trigger memory recall and influence cognitive processing

3.5 The functions of emotion in an evolutionary, Darwinian, context3.6 The functions of motivation in an evolutionary, Darwinian, context; 3.7 Are all goals for action gene-specified? ; 4 The brain mechanisms underlying emotion; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Overview; 4.3 Representations of primary reinforcers, i.e. of unlearned value; 4.3.1 Taste; 4.3.2 Smell; 4.3.3 Pleasant and painful touch; 4.3.4 Visual stimuli; 4.4 Representing potential secondary reinforcers; 4.4.1 The requirements of the representation

4.4.2 Objects, and not their reward and punishment associations or value, are represented in the inferior temporal visual cortex

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-163515-4

0-19-163514-6

1-306-22467-5

OCLC:

867050041