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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2012 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, QLD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1488-6
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-4393
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252413
