On the behavioural interpretation of neurophysiological observation
Donald R. J. Laming a1 a1 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England CB2 3EB
drjl@cus.cam.ac.uk
Abstract
Examples of terror generated by an aircraft disaster, of human courtship behaviour, and of the application of laboratory techniques to the commercial training of animals suggest (1) that emotion is simply the subjective counterpart of (objective) motivation (so that separate brain mechanisms would be an embarrassment) and (2) the apparent involvement of reward and punishment is a consequence of the excessively narrow range of experimental procedures used and has no foundation in the design of the brain.
