title: Internal States and Behavioral Decision-Making: Toward an Integration of Emotion and Cognition.
abstract: Social interactions, such as an aggressive encounter between two conspecific males or a mating encounter between a male and a female, typically progress from an initial appetitive or motivational phase, to a final consummatory phase. This progression involves both changes in the intensity of the animals' internal state of arousal or motivation and sequential changes in their behavior. How are these internal states, and their escalating intensity, encoded in the brain? Does this escalation drive the progression from the appetitive/motivational to the consummatory phase of a social interaction and, if so, how are appropriate behaviors chosen during this progression? Recent work on social behaviors in flies and mice suggests possible ways in which changes in internal state intensity during a social encounter may be encoded and coupled to appropriate behavioral decisions at appropriate phases of the interaction. These studies may have relevance to understanding how emotion states influence cognitive behavioral decisions at higher levels of brain function.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asahina
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hoopfer
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Hidehiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Yonil
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Hyosang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Remedios
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pasadena, California 91125 wuwei@caltech.edu.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior