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Roads not taken: The case for multiple functional-level routes to emotion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2000

Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdomtim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

This review focuses on the theory of emotion outlined in Chapter 3 of Rolls's The brain and emotion. It is proposed that Rolls's emphasis on a relatively simple neurobiologically derived emotion scheme does not allow him to present a comprehensive account of emotion. Consequently, high-level cognitive processes, such as appraisal, end up being retained in the theory despite Rolls's skepticism about their utility. An argument is put forward that the concept of appraisal in the emotion literature is more than semantic convention and actually allows us to talk about multiple functional-level routes to the generation of emotion – a characteristic of the latest generation of theories in the cognition-emotion literature.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 196 - 197
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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