Decision Neuroscience: An Integrative Perspective presents the most recent and compelling lesional, neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and computational studies, in combination with hormonal and genetic studies, which have led to a clearer understanding of the neural mechanisms behind reward and decision making. The neural bases of reward and decision-making processes are of critical interest to scientists because of the fundamental role that reward plays in a number of behavioral processes (such as motivation learning, and cognition), and because the neural bases have theoretical and clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in several neurological and psychiatric disorders. This book will constitute a comprehensive update of ground-breaking work addressing fundamental questions about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and how does it make decisions when facing multiple options? And will feature entirely new content, as well as expanded coverage on drug and behavioral addiction, the role of subthalamus stimulation in neurological disorders and neuroeconomics.
Table of Contents
PART I. Animal Studies on Rewards, Punishments, and Decision Making1. Anatomy and Connectivity of the Reward Circuit
2. Electrophysiological Correlates of Reward Processing in Dopamine Neurons
3. Representations of Appetitive and Aversive Information in the Primate
4. Ventral Striatum Involved in Appetitive and Aversive Motivational Processes
5. Reward and Decision Encoding in Basal Ganglia. Insights from Optogenetics Studies in Rodents
6. The Neural Bases of the Learning and Motivational Processes That Control Goal-Directed Behavior
7. Delayed Choice and Impulse Control Disorders in Rodents
8. Prefrontal Cortex and Decision Making
PART II. Human Studies on Motivation, Perceptual, and Value-Based Decision Making
9. Reward, Value, and Salience
10. Computational Principles of Value Coding in the Brain
11. Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Perceptual Decision Making in the Human Brain
12. Perceptual Decision Making
13. Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Economic Decision-Making
14. Decision Making Under Uncertainty
15. Insights on How Attention and Information Integration Guide Decisions
16. Cognitive Map. Novel Decision-Making Beyond Experiences, and Introduction to Multivariate Approaches
17. Deep Learning and Value-Based Decision Making
18. Reward Learning Signals and Computational Models of Mood Fluctuations
19. How Are Decisions Shaped by Past Experience?
PART III. Social Decision Neuroscience
20. Neuroethology of Social Behavior
21. Organization of the Social Brain in Macaques and Humans
22. The Neural Bases of Social Influence on Valuation and Behavior
23. Neural Circuit Mechanism of Social Hierarchy
24. Reinforcement Learning and Strategic Reasoning During Social Decision Making
25. Neural Control of Social Decisions
26. The Neuroscience of Social Emotions and Prosocial Behaviour
27. Neurocomputational Approaches for Moral Decision Making. From Adolescents to Older Adults
28. Counterfactual Thinking
29. Intergroup Conflicts and Coordination Failures
PART IV. Human Clinical Studies Involving Dysfunctions of Reward and Decision Making Processes
30. Reinforcement Learning in Schizophrenia
31. A Neuropsychological Perspective on the Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Value-Based Decision-Making
32. Reward and Punishment Learning. Deficit in Pathology of Basal Ganglia
33. Impulse Control Disorders (ICD) in Parkinson’s Disease
34. The Subthalamic Nucleus in Impulsivity
35. Anxiety Disorders and Decision Making
36. Neuroimaging Findings on Pathological Gambling and Behavioral Addictions
37. Contributions to Computational Psychiatry
38. Neurocomputational Models Related to Social Controllability
PART V. Genetic and Hormonal Influences on Motivation and Social Behavior
39. Decision Making in Fish. Genetics and Social Behavior
40. Imaging Genetics in Humans
41. Steroid Hormones and Neuropeptides Effects on Socio-Emotional Processing. Insights from Neuroimaging Studies
42. Oxytocin, Social Cognition, and Autism
43. Appetite as Motivated Choice. Hormonal and Environmental Influences
44. Perspectives
PART VI. Neuromodulations of Reward and Decision Making
45. Roles of Dopamine, Noradrenaline, and Serotonin on Reward Learning and Cognitive Flexibility
46. Pharmacological Manipulations of Moral Decision Making
47. Pharmacological Modulations of Belief Updating
48. Nutrition Impacts Individual and Social Decisions
49. Computational Functions of Neuromodulators on Reward Learning and Decision Making
PART VII. Advanced Computational Models of Decision Making. Insights from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
50. Interactions Between Multiple Decision-Making Systems
51. AI Approaches to Encourage Group Cooperation
52. Models of Theory of Mind During Cooperation and Competition
53. Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games
54. Neurocomputational Mechanisms Engaged in Decision to Spread Information Through Social Networks
