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Reward: Wanted – a better definition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Irving Kupfermann
Irving Kupfermann
Affiliation:
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 ik7@columbia.edu
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Abstract

Rolls's book depends significantly on a definition relating emotion to reward and learning. This definition confuses two separable concepts, and may result in the exclusion of notions of emotion and motivation from lower animals that may possess limited learning capacities. A more useful definition might revolve around the notion that emotions are states that function to optimize the performance of behavior.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 208
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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