A comprehensive systems overview of sensory and reward processing in the brain, this book
explores what reward processing can teach us about the senses and what sensory …

Advances in neurobiology permit neuroscientists to manipulate specific brain molecules,
neurons and systems. This has lead to major advances in the neuroscience of reward. Here …

Reward is one of the most important influences shaping behavior. Single-unit recording and
lesion studies in experimental animals have implicated a number of regions in response to …

Introduction Pleasure and reward are generated by brain circuits that are largely shared
between humans and other animals. Discussion Here, we survey some fundamental topics …

This book was conceived many years ago as an abstract goal for a father-son team when
the father was working in university administration and the son was just getting into the …

The fundamental biological importance of rewards has created an increasing interest in the
neuronal processing of reward information. The suggestion that the mechanisms underlying …

One fundamental question concerning brain reward mechanisms is to determine how
reward-related activity is influenced by the nature of rewards. Here, we review the …

What are the neural substrates of food reward? Are reward and pleasure identical? Can
taste pleasure be assessed in animals? Is reward necessarily conscious? These questions …

A key component to rational decision-making and appropriate goal-directed behaviors is the
ability to evaluate reward value, predictability, and risk accurately. The reward circuit, central …

In the last decade, expanding animal studies on the cerebral organization of reward
processing toward human in vivo situations has become possible. In this review, we define …