
Affective Minds
Proceedings of the 13th Toyota Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, 1999
Published on 9. October 2000
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-444-50418-0 (ISBN)
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This is the first edited volume about affective minds, a title reflecting our conviction that in order to understand how the human mind works we cannot ignore its affective aspects. Although cognitive science as an integrated approach to studies of the mind has achieved some remarkable success by treating the mind as an information processing system and emphasizing the roles of domain-specific knowledge in its operation, breakthroughs to a deeper understanding of the mind's mechanisms, functions, and origins require us to take emotions into account. What kinds of emotions are examined varies considerably among the chapters, from biological software producing fear, anger and other basic emotions to socioculturally shaped self-related and moral emotions. However, each group of authors investigates particular exemplars of emotions deeply in relation with cognition.
How relationships between cognition and emotion are specified also varies, for instance emotion may be conceptualized as a pattern of activation of cognitive components constituting the mind, as modifying or modulating the cognitive system so that it can promptly process urgent matters, or as enriching cognition and thus human life rather than being adaptive in terms of survival. This volume as a whole constitutes a forum for scholars from a variety of disciplines, in which studies of the cognitionemotion relationships provide them with a vantage point to unite seemingly very different approaches. Its theorization at mental-representational levels is tied to neuroscience and comparative animal studies on the one hand, and social and behavioral sciences on the other. In addition, enhanced understandings of affective minds are to serve practical purposes such as improving social organizations, artificial systems and artifacts. The contributors explore this challenging theme of affective minds, using a variety of perspectives, methods and concepts.
How relationships between cognition and emotion are specified also varies, for instance emotion may be conceptualized as a pattern of activation of cognitive components constituting the mind, as modifying or modulating the cognitive system so that it can promptly process urgent matters, or as enriching cognition and thus human life rather than being adaptive in terms of survival. This volume as a whole constitutes a forum for scholars from a variety of disciplines, in which studies of the cognitionemotion relationships provide them with a vantage point to unite seemingly very different approaches. Its theorization at mental-representational levels is tied to neuroscience and comparative animal studies on the one hand, and social and behavioral sciences on the other. In addition, enhanced understandings of affective minds are to serve practical purposes such as improving social organizations, artificial systems and artifacts. The contributors explore this challenging theme of affective minds, using a variety of perspectives, methods and concepts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
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Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations (some col.)
Weight
905 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-50418-0 (9780444504180)
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Content
Preface. List of Contributors. Organizing Committee of the 13th Toyota Conference. History of the Toyota Conference. I. Keynote Papers. Introduction to keynote papers (N. Miyake, Toyota, Japan). 1. Emotion and social interaction: a theoretical overview (M. Toda, Nagoya, Japan). 2. The anatomical basis of affective behavior, emotion and self-awareness: a specific role of the right frontal lobe (D.T. Stuss and M.P. Alexander, Toronto, Canada and Boston, MA, USA). 3. Attachments and goals (M. Minsky, Cambridge, MA, USA). II. Emotion and Computation. Section overview (A. Tokosumi, Tokyo, Japan). 4. On the role of embodiment in the emergence of cognition and emotion (R. Pfeifer, Zurich, Switzerland). 5. Functional models of emotion (D.C. Moffat and N.H. Frijda (Glasgow, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands). 6. Goal scheduling and action mode selection done by an autonomous agent on the basis of situational urgency (T. Tsuchiya, Toyota, Japan). 7. Emotional performance (K. Binsted, Tokyo, Japan). III. Brain Damages and Emotional Problems. Section overview (H. Tanabe, Ehime, Japan). 8. Behavioural disorder in frontotemporal dementia (D. Neary and J.S. Snowden, Manchester, UK). 9. Serotonergic neurotransmission and defensive freezing in the conditioned fear stress paradigm (T. Inoue, S. Hashimoto, T. Izumi, Y. Maki, I. Muraki, X.-B. Li, Y. Kitaichi, S. Hashimoto and T. Koyama, Sapporo, Japan). 10. Metalearning, neuromodulation, and emotion (K. Doya, Kyoto, Japan). 11. Emotion and memory in Alzheimer patients (M. Ikeda and E. Mori, Ehime, Japan). 12. Receiving emotional signals and retrieving past similar events: higher-order cognitive dysfunction following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (S. Umeda and M. Kato, Tokyo and Chiba, Japan). IV. Development and Emotion. Section overview (K. Takahashi, Tokyo, Japan). 13. The role of cognition in emotional development (M. Lewis, New Brunswick, NJ, USA). 14. Imagination and emotion (P.L. Harris, Oxford, UK). 15. Implicit self-attachment in Japan: an examination with an implicit association test (Y. Uchida and S. Kitayama, Kyoto, Japan). 16. When your benefit and mine clash: mental negotiations between selves and others (M. Hirai and K. Takahashi, Tokyo, Japan). V. Applications to Artificial Systems. Section overview (N. Okada, Fukuoka, Japan). 17. Digitally mediated interaction: technology and the urge system (J. Grudin, Redmond, WA, USA). 18. Evolvable architectures for human-like minds (A. Sloman and B. Logan, Birmingham, UK). 19. Expression of emotion, unconsciousness with art and technology (N. Tosa, Kyoto, Japan). 20. Artificial mind and consciousness model for interactive agents (H. Ushida, Y. Hirayama and H. Nakajima, Kyoto, Japan). 21. Reciprocity and its cultural dependency in humancomputer interaction (Y. Katagiri, Y. Takeuchi, C.I. Nass and B.J. Fogg, Kyoto, Japan and Stanford, CA, USA). 22. Emotion recognition in speech using neural networks (J. Nicholson, K. Takahashi and R. Nakatsu, Kyoto, Japan). 23. Emotion recognition in dialogue (M. Tokuhisa, R. Tokuhisa, K. Inui and N. Okada, Iizuka, Japan). 24. Emergence of emotional behavior through physical interaction between humans and artificial emotional creatures (T. Shibata, T. Tashima and K. Tanie, Tsukuba, Japan). VI. Emotion in Society. Section overview (T. Yamagishi, Sapporo, Japan). 25. Spontaneous attention to emotional speech in Japan and the United States (K. Ishii and S. Kitayama, Kyoto, Japan). 26. Theory-of-mind mechanism in personal exchange (G. Coricelli, K. McCabe and V. Smith, Tucson, AZ, USA). 27. Moral decision and information aversion (H. Matsushima, Kyoto, Japan). 28. A proposal of a computational approach to the sociology of emotions and group dynamics (T. Nomura, Nara, Japan). Subject Index.