Edmund Rolls

Career and research

Rolls research interests are in neuroscience, computational neuroscience, emotion, memory and vision.

Selected papers

• Rolls, E. T. (2016). A non-reward attractor theory of depression. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 68: 47–58.
• Rolls, E. T. (2016). Reward systems in the brain and nutrition. Annual Review of Nutrition 36: 435–470.
• Kesner,R.P. and Rolls,E.T. (2015). A computational theory of hippocampal function, and tests of the theory: new developments. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 48: 92-147.
• Rolls, E.T. (2014). Emotion and Decision-Making Explained: Précis. Cortex 59: 185–193.
• Rolls,E.T. (2012). Invariant visual object and face recognition: neural and computational bases, and a model, VisNet. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 6: (35) 1-70.
• Rolls,E.T. and Treves.A. (2011). The neuronal encoding of information in the brain. Progress in Neurobiology 95: 448–490.
• Rolls, E.T. (2008). Emotion, higher order syntactic thoughts, and consciousness. Chapter 4, pp. 131–167 in Frontiers of Consciousness, eds. L.Weiskrantz and M.Davies. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
• Rolls, E.T., Tromans, J. & Stringer, S.M. (2008). Spatial scene representations formed by self-organizing learning in a hippocampal extension of the ventral visual system. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 2116–2127.
• Grabenhorst, F., Rolls, E.T. & Parris, B.A. (2008). From affective value to decision-making in the prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 1930–1939.
• Rolls, E .T. & Grabenhorst, F. (2008). The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: from affect to decision-making. Progress in Neurobiology, 86, 216–244.
• Rolls, E.T., Loh, M., Deco, G. & Winterer, G. (2008). Computational models of schizophrenia and dopamine modulation in the prefrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 696–709.

Selected books

• Rolls, Edmund T. (2016). Cerebral Cortex: Principles of Operation., Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Rolls, Edmund T. (2014). Emotion and Decision-Making Explained., OUP
• Rolls, Edmund T. (2012). Neuroculture: On the Implications of Brain Science., OUP
• Rolls, Edmund T. and Deco, G. (2010). The Noisy Brain: Stochastic Dynamics as a Principle of Brain Function., OUP
• Rolls, Edmund T. (2008). Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making: A unifying computational neuroscience approach., OUP
• Rolls, Edmund T. and Treves, Alessandro (1998). Neural Networks and Brain Function, OUP