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A Comprehensive Look at the Brain and (Some) Emotions

The Brain and Emotion. Edmund T. Rolls. 1999. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 378 pp., £18.95 (PB).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2002

Deborah Fein
Deborah Fein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1020.
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Extract

The aims of this book are grand indeed. Rolls addresses such questions as, What are emotions? Why do we have emotions? What are the rules by which emotion operates? What are the brain mechanisms of emotion, and how can disorders of emotion be understood? Why does it feel like something to have an emotion? Why is the brain built to have reward, and punishment, systems? How does the brain produce behavior by using reward, and punishment, mechanisms? And in fact he does succeed remarkably well in presenting a synthesis of experimental data to elucidate many of these questions.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 138 - 139
Copyright
© 2002 The International Neuropsychological Society

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REFERENCES

Rolls, E. & Treves, A. ( 1998). Neural networks and brain function. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.