First Principles: Introduction: From Traditional Fixed Cortical Sensationism to Contemporary Plasticity of Primary Sensory Cortical Representations. A Brief History of Sensation and Reward: Reward: What Is It? How Can It Be Inferred from Behavior? What Can Different Brains Do with Reward? A Systems Organization of the Senses: Smell. Taste. Touch. Sight. Sound. Sensory Agnosias. From Sensation to Reward: Neuroanatomy of Reward: A View from the Ventral Striatum. Multiple Reward Layers in Food Reinforcement. Sensation, Incentive Learning, and the Motivational Control of Goal-directed Action. Reward Predictions and Computations. Orbitofrontal Cortex and Outcome Expectancies: Optimizing Behavior and Sensory Perception. The Neurology of Value.Civilized Sensory Rewards (Distinctly Human Rewards): Perfume.Visual Art. Music. Index.
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Jay A. Gottfried
