Journal of Psychiatry

Kalpana Kumari Barhwal

Publications

• Short Communication
  Chronological Prospective of Behavioral Decision Making: A Three Realm Model for Cognitive Processing and Behavior
  Author(s): Sunil Kumar Hota and Kalpana Kumari BarhwalSunil Kumar Hota and Kalpana Kumari Barhwal
  
  There has been growing evidence on functional connectivity between brain regions that otherwise are not directly connected structurally, resulting in a paradigm shift from neo-phrenology to a network centric approach for understanding cognitive functions. Considering the burgeoning evidence on co-localization of brain areas associated with reward and punishment and competitive firing of neuronal populations, we here propose a three realm model for decision making and behaviour. According to the model, the brain encodes information either in the context of a reward or a punishment in different brain regions, based on associative function of the region. The neural networks associated with reward form a reward realm and those associated with punishment form the punishment realm. Decision making and behaviour is governed by a computational evaluation of this information of reward or punis.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2378-5756.1000406

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