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 the genes, and does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to long-term plans and social contracts in the interests of the individual? This book seeks explanations of emotion…
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- Full title :Emotion and decision-making explained / Edmund T. Rolls (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, England).
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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 the genes, and does rational multistep planning enable us to go beyond selfish genes to long-term plans and social contracts in the interests of the individual? This book seeks explanations of emotion and decision-making by considering these and other questions.
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- Publication Date:2014.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvii, 710 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191772078, 0191772070
- oclc:on1065701094
- LC Classification:QP401
- Dewey Decimal:612.8232
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