A Computational Basis for the Emotions

Previous research in psychology and neuroscience has strived to reach the basis of the emotional process, but the resulting models and theories have often not been translated into a computational representation. In the literature, we can distinguish between those theories advocating a basic emotions approach, a dimensional approach and an appraisal based approach. In the basic emotion theories (e.g. Plutchik (2001), Panksepp (1982)), it is assumed that different processes underlie a small set of basic emotions; more complex emotions would arise from subtle variations on these basic ones. If this were represented computationally, the difABSTRACT

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