Affect is the Evaluative Context for the Brain’s Shifting Goals
Adaptive Behavior: Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Published online on September 13, 2025
Abstract
Adaptive Behavior, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 155-178, April 2026.
Affect is a valenced (i.e., positive-to-negative) experience in consciousness that changes each moment and guides what people do, and despite its importance to human decision-making, it currently has no consensus understanding. The recent neuroscience ...
Affect is a valenced (i.e., positive-to-negative) experience in consciousness that changes each moment and guides what people do, and despite its importance to human decision-making, it currently has no consensus understanding. The recent neuroscience ...