Emotion and Reason: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Decision Making

Introduction PART I - IS DECISION MAKING RATIONAL OR IRRATIONAL? 1. The brain: gambler and logician 2. Decision making and emotion 3. The pathology of decision making PART II - DECISION MAKING WITH MY SECOND SELF 4. Fight or flight 5. Walking and balance 6. Deliberating with one's body: me and my second self PART III - PERCEPTION, PREFERENCE AND DECISION MAKING 7. To perceive visually is to decide: the physiology of doubt 8. Decision making and shape recognition: ambiguity and rivalry 9. Sensory conflict: perception of movement 10. Fountains PART IV - MAGICAL THINKING 11. The physiology of preference 12. "I think, therefore I suppress" 13. The brain as emulator and generator of strategies : the vagabond thought Epilogue