Decision Making, Affect, and Learning

• A cutting edge volume the science of decision making, and its link with emotional processing, providing psychologists, neuroscientists, and behavioural economists with a valuable review of this important topic
• As part of the acclaimed Attention and Performance Series, the book brings together the leading authorities in the field

Readership: Researchers and graduates in cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, and behavioural economics

Edited by Mauricio R. Delgado, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, USA, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA, and Trevor W. Robbins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Mauricio Delgado is the Principal Investigator of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University. His research program focuses on understanding the behavioral and neural influences that positive and negative reinforcers have on our ability to learn, adapt and make sound choices. The lab uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in conjunction with physiological and behavioral measures to obtain converging information aimed at addressing questions such as: 1) How does the human brain learn about value? 2) How does it use this information to make decisions and guide behavior during (a) basic processes, such as instrumental conditioning (learning a particular choice will lead to a desired outcome) and (b) more complex social interactions which are integral to everyday behavior; 3) How do we control or regulate our expectations and emotional responses to cope with simple and complex decisions?

Elizabeth A. Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University in 1989, served on the faculty of Yale University until 1999, and is currently the Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. Her laboratory has earned widespread acclaim for its groundbreaking research on how the human brain processes emotion, particularly as it relates to learning, memory and decision-making. Dr. Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Experimental Psychology. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Neuroethics, was the President of the Society for Neuroeconomics and is the current editor of the APA journal Emotion.

Trevor Robbins was appointed in 1997 as the Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He was elected to the Chair of Expt. Psychology (and Head of Department) at Cambridge from October 2002. He is also Director of the newly-established Cambridge MRC Centre in Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, the main objective of which is to inter-relate basic and clinical research in Psychiatry and Neurology for such conditions as Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Alzheimer's diseases, frontal lobe injury, schizophrenia, depression, drug addiction and developmental syndromes such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the U.K. National Academy of Science. He has been President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (1992-1994) and he won that Society's inaugural Distinguished Scientist Award in 2001.

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Section 1: Psychological Processes Underlying decision Making
1: Nathaniel D . Daw: Trial-by-trial data analysis using computational models
2: Colin F . Camerer: Psychological influences on economic choice: Pavlovian cuing and emotional regulation
3: Samuel M. McClure and Wouter van den Bos: The psychology of common value auctions
4: Nick Chater and Ivo Vlaev: The instability of value
5: Tobias Kalenscher and Cyriel M.A. Pennartz: Do intransitive choices reflect genuinely context-dependent preferences?
Section 2: Neural Sustems of Decision Making
6: On the difficulties of integrating evidence from fMRI and electrophysiology in cognitive neuroscience
(Tutorial Review)Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt:
7: Vinod Venkatraman , John W. Payne , and Scott A. Huettel: Neuroeconomics of risky decisions: from variables to strategies
8: Manami Yamamoto, Xiaochuan Pan, Kensaku Nomoto, and Masamichi Sakagami: Multiple neural circuits in value-based decision making
9: Kenji Doya, Makoto Ito, and Kazuyuki Samejima: Model-based analysis of decision variables
10: H.F. Clarke and A.C. Roberts: Reversal learning in fronto-striatal circuits: a functional, autonomic, and neurochemical analysis
11: Mark E. Walton, Peter H. Rudebeck, Timothy E.J. Behrens, and Matthew F.S Rushworth: Cingulate and orbitofrontal contributions to valuing knowns and unknowns in a changeble world
Section 3: Neural Systems of Emotion, Reward, and Learning
12: Matthew R. Roesch and Geoffrey Schoenbaum: Dissociating encoding of attention, errors, and value in outcome-related neural activity (Tutorial Review)
13: G. Elliott Wimmer and Daphna Shohamy: The striatum and beyond: contributions of the hippocampus decision making
14: Laura N. Martin and Mauricio R. Delgado: The neural basis of positive and negative emotion regulation: implications for decision making
15: Mathias Pessiglione, Liane Schmidt, Stefano Palminteri, and Chris D. Frith: Reward processing and conscious awareness
16: Roshan Cools: Role of striatal dopamine in the fast adaption of outcome-based decisions
17: Sander Nieuwenhuis and Marieke Jepma: Investigating the role of the noradrenergic system in human cognition
18: Martin P. Paulus: Interoception and decision making
Section 4: Neurodevelopmental and Clinical Aspects
19: Monique Ernst: A neural systems model of decision making in adolescents
20: B.J. Casey, Todd A. Hare, and Adriana Galván: Risky and impulsive components of adolescent decision making
21: Rita Z. Goldstein: Abnormalities in monetary and other non-drug reward processing in drug addiction
22: Karen D. Ersche: The neuropsychology of stimulant and opiate dependence: neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies
23: Barbara J. Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir: Depression and resilience: insights from cognitive, neuroimaging, and psychopharmacological studies