Rolls

EMOTION & DECISION-MAKING EXPLAINED C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1413g
• ISBN-13: 9780199659890
• ISBN-10: 0199659893
• Artikelnr.: 47870454

Autorenporträt

Professor Edmund T. Rolls performs full-time research at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, and at the University of Warwick, and has acted as Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and as Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His research links neurophysiological and computational neuroscience approaches to human functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding human brain function and its disorders.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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