“the term reward has no consistent meaning”
A very important point about dopamine (DA) and reward, from a recent review paper: "The DA hypothesis of reward is a ubiquitous feature of the scientific literature, as well as…
What are emotions?
What indeed?
My research is on cognitive-emotional interaction, so I suppose I am qualified to answer this question. 🙂
But my answer cannot be the answer, since there is actually no consensus among scientists concerning the definition of emotions.
[Illustration of grief from Charles Darwin’s book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.]
Twitterers understand how the brain works…
... or at the very least, how pop science works! A lot of people believe some version of the 'chemical soup' story. I wrote an essay about it a few …