Emotional brain. Simonov P.

The scientific works of P.V. Simonov are devoted to the physiology of higher nervous activity, that is, the study of the brain foundations of behavior. He has been created and experimentally substantiated a requirement-informational approach to the analysis of behavior and higher mental functions of humans and animals, which allowed the natural science justification to such key concepts of general psychology as the need, emotion, will, consciousness. The book is interdisciplinary in nature: it considers neurophysiological, neuroanatomical and psychological aspects of the study of emotions.