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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 brainfunction 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 UniversityPress). Klappentext What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? This new book seeks explanations of emotion by considering these questions. A successor to 'The Brain and Emotion', (OUP, 1998) it describes the nature, functions, and brain mechanisms that underlie both emotion and motivation. However, it goes beyond examining brain mechanisms of emotion, by proposing a theory of what emotions are, and anevolutionary, Darwinian, theory of the adaptive value of emotion. 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....
