Emotion and Decision-Making Explained

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?
These are just some of the question considered in this book, written by a leading neuroscientist in this field.

List of 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

About the author

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.

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? These are just some of the question considered in this book, written by a leading neuroscientist in this field.

Additional text

One would struggle to find another single volume that covered so much of relevance in this field with writing so clear and tutorial, doubtless honed by several generations of teaching undergraduates at Oxford University.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund T. Rolls, Edmund T. (Oxford Centre for Computational Rolls, Edmund T. (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience Rolls, Rolls Edmund T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199659890
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965989-0
• No. of pages: 704
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Psychology: emotions, Behavioural economics, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology