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On the behavioural interpretation of neurophysiological observation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Donald R. J. Laming
Donald R. J. Laming
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England CB2 3EB [email protected]
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Abstract

Examples of terror generated by an aircraft disaster, of human courtship behaviour, and of the application of laboratory techniques to the commercial training of animals suggest (1) that emotion is simply the subjective counterpart of (objective) motivation (so that separate brain mechanisms would be an embarrassment) and (2) the apparent involvement of reward and punishment is a consequence of the excessively narrow range of experimental procedures used and has no foundation in the design of the brain.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 209
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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