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Emotion and decision-making explained : a précis
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Rolls, Edmund T. (2014) Emotion and decision-making explained : a précis. Cortex, 59 . pp. 185-193. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.020 ISSN 0010-9452.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.020
Abstract
Emotion and Decision-Making Explained aims to explain and advance understanding of emotion and decision-making at two levels of explanation. One is the proximate, mechanistic level of explanation, in terms of brain mechanisms. In terms of decision-making, this results in emphasis on biologically plausible integrate-and-fire models of the attractor neuronal network processes that underlie decision-making, rather than the phenomenological models such as the drift-diffusion model, although these phenomenological models of decision-making are covered in Appendix B. The second is the ultimate level of explanation, the level of adaptive value in evolution, in which emotion is explained as an efficient and simple way for genes to influence behaviour for their own ‘selfish’ reproductive success, by specifying the rewarding and punishing goals for instrumental actions, with the resulting states when the rewards or punishers are or are not obtained being emotional states (Chapters 2 and 3). This is simpler and more efficient in terms of evolutionary adaptive value than for genes to specify the details of the actions, the behavioural responses, to be produced by stimuli.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cortex | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Masson | ||||||
ISSN: | 0010-9452 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 59 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 185-193 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.020 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Embodied As: | 1 |
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