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Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. Foundations
CHAPTER 1. What Don’t We Know about Emotions?
Emotions According to Inside Out
Toward a Science of Emotion
Emotions Are Decoupled Reflexes
Questions We Will Not Answer in This Book
What Do We Want to Know about Emotions?
CHAPTER 2. A Framework for Studying Emotions
Warm-Up: Neuroscience Questions about Emotion
Toward a Functional Definition of Emotion
Proper Functions and Malfunctions
Emotions and Consciousness
An Experimental Example
Summary
CHAPTER 3. Building Blocks and Features of Emotions
Building Blocks versus Features
A Provisional List of Emotion Properties
Summary
PART II. Neuroscience
CHAPTER 4. The Logic of Neuroscientific Explanations
Levels of Biological Organization
The Concept of Mechanism in Neuroscience
Testing Causal Relationships between Neural Activity and Behavior
Levels of Abstraction
Mixing of Terms in Neuroscience Explanations
Necessity, Sufficiency, and Normalcy
Summary
CHAPTER 5. The Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals:
General Considerations
Why Do We Need Studies of the Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals?
What Do We Want to Understand about Emotion by Studying Animals?
The Relationship of Emotion States to Motivation, Arousal, and Drive
Psychiatric Drugs, Animal Models, and Emotions
Summary
CHAPTER 6. The Neuroscience of Emotion in Rodents
Emotion, Fear, and the Amygdala
Innate Defensive Beha