• DocumentCode
    2769998
  • Title

    I think therefore I feel: Possible neural mechanisms for knowledge-based pleasure

  • Author

    Levine, Daniel S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Psychol., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    10-15 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    How do we feel pleasure from acquiring new information? How is that pleasure related to our curiosity about that information? We outline a neural theory of how information-based pleasure arises from a network involving association cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, striatum, opioids, and dopamine.
  • Keywords
    neural nets; social sciences; association cortex; dopamine; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; information-based pleasure; knowledge-based pleasure; neural mechanisms; neural theory; opioids; orbitofrontal cortex; striatum; Biological neural networks; Brain modeling; Cognition; Logic gates; Neuroscience; Psychology; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2012 International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brisbane, QLD
  • ISSN
    2161-4393
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1488-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2161-4393
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252413
  • Filename
    6252413
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2769998