Quentin Huys
Translational Neuromodeling Unit
ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
Emotions are complex and hard to define. But emotions are extremely important to psychiatry, and hence it is important for computational psychiatry to understand to what extent the prominent theoretical frameworks are able to capture important features of emotions. This talk will be divided into three parts.
First, I will describe some work on Pavlovian influences on simple and complex choice behaviour. Second, I will briefly review decision-making work on depression, arguing that a model-based account is necessary. Third, I will introduce a speculative notion of emotions as implementing approximate metareasoning strategies and discuss how this could qualitatively account for important features of emotions and emotion regulation.