Advances in neurobiology permit neuroscientists to manipulate specific brain molecules,
neurons and systems. This has lead to major advances in the neuroscience of reward. Here�…

A comprehensive systems overview of sensory and reward processing in the brain, this book
explores what reward processing can teach us about the senses and what sensory�…

Reward is one of the most important influences shaping behavior. Single-unit recording and
lesion studies in experimental animals have implicated a number of regions in response to�…

The fundamental biological importance of rewards has created an increasing interest in the
neuronal processing of reward information. The suggestion that the mechanisms underlying�…

Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is�…

This book was conceived many years ago as an abstract goal for a father-son team when
the father was working in university administration and the son was just getting into the�…

The purpose of this volume is to draw attention to one selected concept in the domain of the
psychologist, that of reward, and to appraise systematically the various approaches that�…

Reward contains separable psychological components of learning, incentive motivation and
pleasure. Most computational models have focused only on the learning component of�…

Rewards have been examined extensively by both psychologists and neuorscientists and
have become one of the most contentious issues in social and educational psychology. In�…

Following the suggestion that midbrain dopaminergic neurons encode a signal, known as a
'reward prediction error', used by artificial intelligence algorithms for learning to choose�…