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Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward.

Synthesizing coverage of sensation and reward into a comprehensive systems overview, Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward presents a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach to the interplay of sensory and reward processing in the brain. While over the past 70 years these areas have drifted apart...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gottfried, Jay A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : CRC Press, 2011.
Colección:Frontiers in neuroscience.
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  • Front cover; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I. First Principles; Chapter 1. Introduction: From Traditional Fixed Cortical Sensationism to Contemporary Plasticity of Primary Sensory Cortical Representations; Chapter 2. A Brief History of Sensation and Reward; Chapter 3. Reward: What Is It? How Can It Be Inferred from Behavior?; Chapter 4. What Can Different Brains Do with Reward?; Part II. A Systems Organization of the Senses; Chapter 5. Smell; Chapter 6. Taste; Chapter 7. Touch; Chapter 8. Sight; Chapter 9. Sound; Chapter 10. Sensory Agnosias.
  • Part III. From Sensation to RewardChapter 11. Neuroanatomy of Reward: A View from the Ventral Striatum; Chapter 12. Multiple Reward Layers in Food Reinforcement; Chapter 13. Sensation, Incentive Learning, and the Motivational Control of Goal-Directed Action; Chapter 14. Reward Predictions and Computations; Chapter 15. Orbitofrontal Cortex and Outcome Expectancies: Optimizing Behavior and Sensory Perception; Chapter 16. The Neurology of Value; Part IV. Civilized Sensory Rewards (Distinctly Human Rewards); Chapter 17. Perfume; Chapter 18. Visual Art; Chapter 19. Music; Color Insert; Back cover.