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Zusatztext I would strongly recommend this book to any neuroscientist or psychologist interested in emotion ... it should be required reading for all students in behavioural neuroscience, and has sufficient breadth that many of its chapters will be of interest also to experts in neurology, psychology or philosophy. Informationen zum Autor Edmund T. Rolls is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He read preclinical medicine at the University of Cambridge, and now performs research in neuroscience at 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. He is author of The Brain and Emotion (1999, Oxford University Press), with A.Treves of Neural Networks and Brain Function (1998, Oxford University Press), and with G.Deco of Computational Neuroscience of Vision (2002, Oxford University Press). Klappentext #N/A Zusammenfassung What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This book seeks explanations of emotion by considering these questions. A successor to "The Brain and Emotion", it describes the nature, functions, and brain mechanisms that underlie both emotion and motivation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: the issues 1.1: Introduction 1.2: Rewards and punishers 1.3: Approaches to emotion and motivation 1.4: Outline 2: The nature of emotion 2.1: Introduction 2.2: A theory of emotion 2.3: Different emotions 2.4: Refinements of the theory of emotion 2.5: The classification of emotion 2.6: Other theories of 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: The concept of emotion 2.11: Advantages of the approach 3: The functions of emotion: reward, punishment and emotion in brain design 3.1: Introduction 3.2: Brain design and the functions of emotion 3.3: Selection of behaviour: cost-benefit 'analysis' 3.4: Further functions of emotion 3.5: The functions of emotion in an evolutionary, Darwinian, context 3.6: 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 4.4: Representing potential secondary reinforcers 4.5: The orbitofrontal cortex 4.6: The amygdala 4.7: The cingulate cortex 4.8: Human brain imaging investigations of mood and depression 4.9: Output pathways for emotional responses 4.10: Effects of emotion on cognitive processing and memory 4.11: Laterality effects in human emotional processing 4.12: Summary 5: Hunger 5.1: Introduction 5.2: Peripheral signals for hunger and satiety 5.3: The control signals for hunger and satiety 5.4: The brain control of eating and reward 5.5: Obesity, bulimia and anorexia 5.6: Conclusions on reward, affective responses to food, and the control of appetite 6: Thirst 6.1: Introduction 6.2: Cellular stimuli for drinking 6.3: Extracellular thirst stimuli 6.4: Control of normal drinking 6.5: Reward and satiety signals for drinking 6.6: Summary 7: Brain-stimulation reward 7.1: Introduction 7.2: The nature of the reward produced 7.3: The location of brain-stimulation reward sites in the brain 7.4: The effects of brain lesions on intracranial self-stimulation 7.5: The neurophysiology of reward 7.6: Some of the properties of brain-stimulation reward 7.7: Stimulus...
