The Brain and Emotion

by Edmund T. Rolls

Book Overview

The Brain and Emotion provides a modern neuroscience-based approach to information processing of the brain, focusing on the brain mechanisms involved with emotion, motivation, punishment, and reward. Coverage of motivated behavior includes discussions of hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, and addiction. The author links his analysis of neural structures and mechanisms of emotion and motivation to a broader consideration of what emotions are, how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198524641
• ISBN13: 9780198524649
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.5"