Emotion as a Significant Change in Neural Activity

Karla Parussel
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Karla Parussel: University of Stirling, Scotland

International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), 2010, vol. 1, issue 1, 51-67

Abstract: It is hypothesized here that two classes of emotions exist: driving and satisfying emotions. Driving emotions significantly increase the internal activity of the brain and result in the agent seeking to minimize its emotional state by performing actions that it would not otherwise do. Satisfying emotions decrease internal activity and encourage the agent to continue its current behavior to maintain its emotional state. It is theorized that neuromodulators act as simple yet high impact signals to either agitate or calm specific neural networks. This results in what we can define as either driving or satisfying emotions. The plausibility of this hypothesis is tested in this article using feed-forward networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons.

Date: 2010
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