Journal article
Affective experience and evidence for animal consciousness
- Abstract:
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Affective experience in nonhuman animals is of great interest for both theoretical and practical reasons. This paper highlights research by the psychologists Anthony Dickinson and Bernard Balleine which provides particularly good evidence of conscious affective experience in rats. This evidence is compelling because it implicates a sophisticated system for goal-directed action selection, and demonstrates a contrast between apparently conscious and unconscious evaluative representations with s...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Philosophy Documentation Center Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Topics Journal website
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 109-127
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-02
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0276-2080
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1207570
- Local pid:
- pubs:1207570
- Deposit date:
- 2021-11-08
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- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Philosophy Documentation Center at: https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics20204816
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