Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks

Daniel S. Levine, Samuel J. Leven

• Contents: Preface. Part I: Theories of Pavlovian Conditioning.M. Aparicio IV, P.N. Strong, Jr., Propagation Controls for True Pavlovian Conditioning. S. Grossberg, N. Schmajuk, D.S. Levine, Associative Learning and Selective Forgetting in a Neural Network Regulated by Reinforcement and Attentive Feedback. E.J. Kehoe, Versatility in Conditioning: A Layered Network Model. P.R. Killeen, Behavioral Geodesics. R. Ricart, Neuromodulatory Mechanisms in Neural Networks and Their Influence on Interstimulus Interval Effects in Pavlovian Conditioning. Part II: Complex Motivational-Cognitive Circuits in the Brain.J.P. Banquet, M. Smith, W. Guenther, Top-Down Processes, Attention, and Motivation in Cognitive Tasks. D. Hestenes, A Neural Network Theory of Manic-Depressive Illness. S.J. Leven, Learned Helplessness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Hope. D.S. Levine, S.J. Leven, P.S. Prueitt, Integration, Disintegration, and the Frontal Lobes. K. Pribram, Familiarity and Novelty: The Contributions of the Limbic Forebrain to Valuation and the Processing of Relevance. Part III: Applications of Goal Direction in Artificial Neural Systems.C.A. Cruz, Knowledge-Representation Networks: Goal Direction in Intelligent Neural Systems. R.L. Dawes, Perfect Memory.

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