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Emotion and decision making explained /
What produces emotions? Why and 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? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the interests of t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Contents; Appendix 4 Colour Plates; 1 Introduction: the issues; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Rewards and punishers, and learning about rewardsand punishers: instrumental learning andstimulus-reinforcer association learning; 1.3 The approaches taken to emotion and motivation: their causes, functions, adaptive value, and brain mechanisms; 1.4 Reward, punishment, emotion, and motivation: the plan of the book; 2 The nature of emotion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The outline of a theory of emotion; 2.3 Different emotions; 2.4 Refinements of the theory of emotion
- 2.5 Summary of the classification of emotion2.6 Other theories of emotion; 2.6.1 The James-Lange and other bodily theories of emotion including Damasio's theory ; 2.6.2 Appraisal theory; 2.6.3 Dimensional and categorical theories of emotion; 2.6.4 Other approaches to 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 Is the concept of emotion still useful when we understand its mechanisms?; 2.11 Advantages of the approach to emotion described here (Rolls' theory of emotion)
- 3 The functions of emotion: reward, punishment, and emotion in brain design3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Brain design and the functions of emotion; 3.2.1 Taxes, rewards, and punishers: gene-specified goals for actions, and the flexibility of actions; 3.2.2 Explicit systems, language, and reinforcement; 3.2.3 Special-purpose design by an external agent vs evolution by natural selection ; 3.3 Selection of behaviour: cost-benefit 'analysis' of net value; 3.4 Further functions of emotion; 3.4.1 Autonomic and endocrine responses
- 3.4.2 Flexibility of behavioural responses, because emotions are related to the rewards and punishers that specify the goals for action3.4.3 Emotional states are motivating; 3.4.4 Communication; 3.4.5 Social attachment; 3.4.6 Separate functions for each different primary reinforcer; 3.4.7 The mood state can influence the cognitive evaluation of moods or memories; 3.4.8 Facilitation of memory storage; 3.4.9 Emotional and mood states are persistent, and help to produce persistent motivation; 3.4.10 Emotions may trigger memory recall and influence cognitive processing
- 3.5 The functions of emotion in an evolutionary, Darwinian, context3.6 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, i.e. of unlearned value; 4.3.1 Taste; 4.3.2 Smell; 4.3.3 Pleasant and painful touch; 4.3.4 Visual stimuli; 4.4 Representing potential secondary reinforcers; 4.4.1 The requirements of the representation