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Zusatztext Over the last decade there has been an explosion in our understanding of how the brain makes decisions. This book, written by one of the leading scholars in the field, is a must read for anyone interested in this area." -Antonio Rangel, Professor of Neuroscience and Economics, California Institute of Technology Informationen zum Autor A. David Redish is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD. Zusammenfassung Our decisions make us who we are. In this book, David Redish brings together what is known about how brains work, what is known about how we make decisions, and what is known about how that decision-making machinery can break down to explain irrationality, addiction, and the other ways our choices can go wrong. Inhaltsverzeichnis Decisions and the brain 1 What is a decision? 2 The tale of the thermostat 3 The definition of value 4 Value, euphoria, and the do-it-again signal 5 Risk and reward The decision-making system 6 Multiple Decision-making systems 7 Reflexes 8 Emotion and the Pavlovian action-selection system 9 Deliberation 10 The habits of our lives 11 Integrating Information 12 The stories we tell 13 Motivation 14 The tradeoff between exploration and exploitation 15 Self-control The brain with a mind of its own 16 The physical mind 17 Imagination 18 Addiction 19 Gambling and behavioral addictions 20 PTSD 21 Computational psychiatry The human condition 22 What makes us human? 23 The science of morality 24 The conundrum of robotics Epilogue Appendix A Information processing in neurons B Gleaning information from the brain C Content-addressable memory Bibliography ...
