Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot

394 index
limbic system theory, 80–86
linguistics, and simulation theory, 156
lizards, day in the life of, 38–39
lobotomies, 141–42
locomotion, 43, 154
love, 101, 103–04. See also attachment; pairbonding
machines. See robots
mammals
dopamine receptors, 50
and monogamy, 101–02
and neocortex, 83–84
opioid receptors, 64–65, 65
paleo- and neomammalian brain, 41
primitive brain, 40–41
serotonin receptors, 50, 51
vision in, 348–50
Markov decision processes (MDP), 316, 320
masochism, 216
mating. See sex
MDP. See Markov decision processes (MDP)
meat, unusual taste for, 139
medial orbital region, 99–100
medial prefrontal cortex
and the amygdala, 95
as cognitive/emotional interface, 96
and fear regulation, 93, 99
role in emotional processing, 17
mediated/direct states, 216
meeting cancellation narrative, 333–34, 337–41
megalomania, 161
memories. See also working memory
and the amygdala, 92, 96, 98–101, 126–27
as belief-like states, 213
and damage to medial prefrontal cortex, 96
and emotions, 105, 122, 126–28, 339
and fear reactions, 96
long term, role in consciousness, 98
and stress hormones, 100
memory buffers. See working memory
The Mentality of Apes, 335
mental states, 337–41. See also emotional states
mental trilogy, 83
meta-management, 207
meta-management layer. See CogAff; design-based
ontology
midbrain dopamine neurons, 140
mimetic behavior, 161
mimicking behavior. See robots, behaviorist vs.
feeling
“mind reading,” 149, 156
mirror neurons, 159, 160. See also mirror system
mirror system. See also simulation theory
and brain models, 345
and Broca’s area, 345, 352
described, 352
and empathy, 370
and grasping, 350–52
and language evolution, 350–55
MissionLab, 263, 265
monkeys
and alcohol, 64
and the amygdala, 139, 160, 365
brain damage in, 139, 140
and communication, 126, 353
and dopamine, 366–67
drug addiction in, 35
emotional brain pathways, 138
and grasping, 352, 359
and mirror neurons, 159
and the orbitofrontal cortex, 365, 365–66
and serotonin, 57–58
and simulation theory, 19–20
vision in, 345, 347–48, 350
monogamy, 101–03
montane voles, 101–03
mood states
as desire-like states, 213
and reinforcers, 121
and stimuli, 122
in the TAME model, 263–64, 264, 265
morphine, and taste, 60
motivated behavior. See also motivation
emotional behavior as, 336
features (figure), 362
and the hypothalamus, 43–44
primitive roots of, 38–39
requirements for, 40
role of behavioral control columns, 361–63
motivation. See also humans; individual animals;
motivation/emotion systems
basic models, 355–60
and behavior, 245, 356–57
and behavior control columns, 361
chemical evolution of, 32, 66
and communication, 343
definitions, 246–47, 265, 336
and emotion, 33–35, 245, 357
and goals, 247
and the mental trilogy, 83
motivational states, 33
in rats, 357–60
and robots, 194
and taxes, 35
in toads, 356–57
in Tolman’s sowbug, 248–51
motivation domain (effective functioning),
174
motivation/emotion systems
activation of, 43–44
and dopamine, 53–55
evolution of, 35–37, 61, 66
reptilian roots of, 39
in robotics, 247–48, 266
and serotonin, 56–58
motor imagery, 150, 158
motor pattern generators, 347, 357
motor system, 176
movement
in biological organisms, 152–53
recognition in schizophrenia, 161–62