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Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts. This book… Read more
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Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts. This book presents compelling neuroimaging, electrophysiological, lesional, and neurocomputational models in combination with hormonal and genetic approaches, which have led to a clearer understanding of the neural mechanisms behind how the brain makes decisions. The five parts of the book address distinct but inter-related topics and are designed to serve both as classroom introductions to major subareas in decision neuroscience and as advanced syntheses of all that has been accomplished in the last decade.
Part I is devoted to anatomical, neurophysiological, pharmacological, and optogenetics animal studies on reinforcement-guided decision making, such as the representation of instructions, expectations, and outcomes; the updating of action values; and the evaluation process guiding choices between prospective rewards. Part II covers the topic of the neural representations of motivation, perceptual decision making, and value-based decision making in humans, combining neurcomputational models and brain imaging studies. Part III focuses on the rapidly developing field of social decision neuroscience, integrating recent mechanistic understanding of social decisions in both non-human primates and humans. Part IV covers clinical aspects involving disorders of decision making that link together basic research areas including systems, cognitive, and clinical neuroscience; this part examines dysfunctions of decision making in neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, behavioral addictions, and focal brain lesions. Part V focuses on the roles of various hormones (cortisol, oxytocin, ghrelin/leptine) and genes that underlie inter-individual differences observed with stress, food choices, and social decision-making processes. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in decision making neuroscience.
With contributions that are forward-looking assessments of the current and future issues faced by researchers, Decision Neuroscience is essential reading for anyone interested in decision-making neuroscience.
Established researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, systems neuroscience, model-based neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, probabilistic models of decision making.
Preface
Jean-Claude Dreher and Leon Tremblay
Part One: Animal Studies on Rewards, Punishments, and Decision Making
1. Anatomy and connectivity of the reward circuit
Suzanne Haber
2. Electrophysiological correlates of reward processing in dopamine neurons
Wolfram Schultz
3. Representations of appetitive and aversive information in the primate
S Bernardi and C Daniel Salzman
4. Ventral Striatum involved in appetitive and aversive motivational processes
Leon Tremblay and Yosuke Saga
5. Reward and decision encoding in Basal Ganglia: insights from optogenetics studies in rodents
Naoshige Uchida, J Tian and N Eshel
6. The neural bases of the learning and motivational processes that control goal-directed behavior
Bernard Balleine and L Bradfield
7. Impulsivity, risky choice and impulse control disorders: animal models
Trevor W. Robbins and JW Dalley
8. Prefrontal cortex in decision making: the perception-action cycle
Joaquin M. Fuster
Part Two: Human Studies on Motivation, Perceptual, and Value-Based Decision Making
9. Reward, value and salience
Philippe Tobler and Thorsten Kahnt
10. Computational principles of value coding in the brain
Paul W. Glimcher and Kenway Louie
11. Spatiotemporal characteristics of perceptual decision making in the human brain
Marios Philiastides, J Diaz and S Gherman
12. Perceptual decision making
Christopher Summerfield and A Blangero
13. Neural circuit mechanisms of economic decision-making
Xiao Jing Wang, A Soltani and W Chaisangmongkon
Part Three: Social Decision Neuroscience
14. Social decision-making in Nonhuman Primates
Jean-Rene Duhamel. M Jazayari and S Ballesta
15. Organization of the social brain in macaques and humans
Jerome Sallet, MaryAnn Philomena Noonan, RB Mars, FX Neubert, B Ahmed, J Smith and K Krug
16. The neural bases of social influence on valuation and behavior
Keise Izuma
17. Social dominance representations in the human brain
Jean-Claude Dreher and R Ligneul
18. Reinforcement learning and strategic reasoning during social decision making
Daeyeol Lee and Hyojung Seo
19. Neural control of social decisions: Causal evidence from brain stimulation studies
Giuseppe Ugazio and Christian Ruff
20. The neuroscience of compassion and empathy and their link to prosocial motivation and behaviour
Tania Singer and Gabriele Chierchia
Part Four: Human Clinical Studies Involving Dysfunctions of Reward and Decision-Making Processes
21. Can models of reinforcement learning help us to understand symptoms of schizophrenia?
Graham K. Murray, Carina Tudor-Sfetea and Paul Fletcher
22. A neuropsychological perspective on the role of the prefrontal cortex in value-based decision-making
Lesley K. Fellows and Avinash Rao Vaidya
23. Opponent Brain Systems for Reward and Punishment Learning: Causal Evidence From Drug and Lesion Studies in Humans
Mathias Pessiglione and S Palminteri
24. Decions-making and impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease
Valerie Voon
25. The subthalamic nucleus in impulsivity
Karsten Witt
26. Decision-making in anxiety and its disorders
Dan W. Grupe
27. Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder: Understanding Behavioral Addictions
Luke Clark
Part Five: Genetic and Hormonal Influences on Motivation and Social Behavior
28. Decision-making in fish: Genetics and social behavior
Russell Fernald
29. Imaging genetics in humans: Major depressive disorder and decision-making
Lukas Pezawas, U Rabl and N Ortner
30. Time-dependent shifts in neural systems supporting decision making under stress
Erno Hermans, Guillen Fernandez, MJAG Henckens and M Joels
31. Oxytocin’s influence on social decions-making
Angela Sirigu and A Lefevre
32. Appetite as Motivated Choice: Hormonal and Environmental Influences
Alain Dagher, Selin Neseliler and Jung Eun Han
33. Perspectives
Jean-Claude Dreher, Leon Tremblay and Wolfram Schultz
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Léon Tremblay spends much of his time researching Neuroscience, Basal ganglia, Premovement neuronal activity, Striatum and Orbitofrontal cortex. His works in Primate and Prefrontal cortex are all subjects of inquiry into Neuroscience. His Basal ganglia research incorporates themes from Caudate nucleus, Dopamine and Putamen.
His study in Striatum is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Dentate nucleus, Cerebrum and Reward system. Brain stimulation reward and Curiosity is closely connected to Cognitive psychology in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Orbitofrontal cortex. His work investigates the relationship between Globus pallidus and topics such as MPTP that intersect with problems in Parkinsonism and Neurotoxin.
His most cited work include: