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Biological and Computational Constraints to Psychological Modelling of Emotion

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Emotion-Oriented Systems

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Emotion modelling comes in many guises, from strictly behaviourist black box models to intricately detailed computational architectures. In this chapter, an investigation of the conflicts and common grounds between the different approaches is presented, touching on psychological theories, neuroscience, and artificial neural networks (ANN). Also included is an overview of state-of-the-art ANN, simulating several emotion-related processes in the human brain.

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  1. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Etienne B. Roesch

  2. Department of Mathematics, Kings College, London, UK

    Nienke Korsten, Nickolaos F. Fragopanagos & John G. Taylor

  3. Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Didier Grandjean

  4. Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland

    Didier Grandjean & David Sander

  5. Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    David Sander

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Roesch, E.B., Korsten, N., Fragopanagos, N.F., Taylor, J.G., Grandjean, D., Sander, D. (2011). Biological and Computational Constraints to Psychological Modelling of Emotion. In: Cowie, R., Pelachaud, C., Petta, P. (eds) Emotion-Oriented Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15184-2_4

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