id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8132 Pleasure - Wikipedia .html text/html 3459 590 52 Pleasure is a mental experience that humans and other conscious animals find enjoyable, positive, or worth seeking. 2.2.3 Pleasure in relation to emotion This section is an excerpt from Reward system ยง Pleasure centers[edit] Relationship of pleasure with reward system[edit] Relationship of pleasure with motivational salience[edit] Psychological aspects of pleasure[edit] Psychological approaches to pleasure motivation[edit] Pleasure in relation to emotion[edit] Pleasure in relation to pain[edit] Issues in experiencing pleasure[edit] A brainstem mechanism for pleasure may seem more surprising than forebrain hot spots to anyone who views the brainstem as merely reflexive, but the pontine parabrachial nucleus contributes to taste, pain, and many visceral sensations from the body and has also been suggested to play an important role in motivation (Wu et al., 2012) and in human emotion (especially related to the somatic marker hypothesis) (Damasio, 2010). How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like (2010) 280 pages. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8132.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8132.txt