Edited by
Jean-Claude Dreher, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France
Leon Tremblay, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France
Description
This book addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and makes decisions when
facing multiple options? The book presents the most recent and compelling lesion, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and computational
studies, in combination with hormonal and genetic studies, which have led to a clearer understanding of neural mechanisms behind reward
and decision making. The neural bases of reward and decision making processes are of great interest to scientists because of the fundamental
role of reward in a number of behavioral processes (such as motivation, learning and cognition) and because of their theoretical and
clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in several neurological and psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia,
Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, pathological gambling, ...).
Audience:
researchers in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology, neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, systems neuroscience, neuroimaging
