Perception, cognition and action: the mediating role of affective states
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1Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Centre de Neurochimie du CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
When facing and evaluating the present state of the world, the brain generates predictions and expectancies together with some specific emotional state which imposes on any given situation - or rather on the individual relationship to that situation - its essential meaning that basically orients the choice of an appropriate behavioural strategy. This general notion is exemplified by concrete data concerning brain mechanisms which underlie aggressive behaviour.