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Higher School of Economics

Introduction to Neuroeconomics

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Overview

如今,经济学、心理学和神经科学正在融合成一门统一的神经经济学学科,其最终目标是创建一个单一的、通用的人类决策理论。

神经经济学帮助生物学家、经济学家、心理学家和社会科学家更深入地理解自己以及其他人如何做出决策。 神经科学同心理学和经济学相结合,创造了强大的新模型来解释我们为什么做出决策。

本课程主要研究:决策制定的神经生物学机制、风险下的决策、信任与合作。您将获得来自脑成像技术(fMRI、TMS 等)的最新证据,并了解其背后的解释模型。

本课程不需要提前学习任何经济学和神经科学相关的知识,但可能需要您学习一些新颖的跨学科材料。本课程介绍了神经经济学的方法论、假设以及主要发现。考虑到大家有不同的学科背景,因此我对课程进行了调整和简化,以便让所有学生都能理解跨学科的内容。对于部分主题,课程还将提供补充视频来帮助你了解该领域顶尖专家的见解。此外,每个模块都提供了相关阅读材料以供选择。

如您对本课程有任何意见和建议,请联系[email protected]

Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the ultimate aim of creating a single, general theory of human decision-making.

Neuroeconomics provides biologists, economists, psychologists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions and how others decide. Neuroscience, when allied with psychology and economics, creates powerful new models to explain why we make decisions.

Neurobiological mechanisms of decision-making, decisions under risk, trust and cooperation will be central issues in this course. You will be provided with the most recent evidence from brain-imaging techniques (fMRI, TMS, etc.) and introduced to the explanatory models behind them. 

The course does not require any prior study of economics and neuroscience; however, it might require you to study novel interdisciplinary materials. The course provides an introduction to the methodology, assumptions, and main findings of Neuroeconomics. Our students have different backgrounds; therefore, I have adapted and simplified the course to allow all students to understand the interdisciplinary content. For some topics, the course will also provide supplementary videos to reveal the opinions of leading experts in the field. Each module provides optional reading material.

You are welcome to contact us at [email protected].


Syllabus

  • Week 1. Introduction and scope of neuroeconomics
    • Intoduction to the Course
    • Introduction to Neuroeconomics
    • The Diversity of Neuroeconomics
    • Guest lecture
    • Test
  • Week 2. Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, and Neuroimaging: Tools of Neuroeconomics
    • Brain Anatomy & Cognitive Neuroscience
    • Key Neuroimaging Techniques
    • Test
  • Week 3. Introducing Brain Models of Decision-Making and Choice
    • Diffusion Model
    • Decision-Making
    • Guest lecture
    • Test
  • Week 4. Neural Representation of Subjective Value
    • Neural Substrates of Valuation
    • The Nucleus Accumbens codes anticipated gains
    • The Orbitofrontal Cortex derives a value signal
    • Guest lecture
    • Test
  • Week 5. Affective Mechanisms of Decision-Making
    • Emotions I: Biological Level of Emotional Stimuli Processing
    • Emotions II: Neurobiology of Emotions
    • Test
  • Week 6. Dual Process Theory of Decision-Making: Toward a Neuroeconomics Perspective
    • Dual Process Theory
    • The Role of the DLPFC (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) in Self-control
    • Guest lecture
    • Test
  • Week 7. Decision-Making under Risk: Toward a Neuroeconomics Mechanism
    • Risk and the Anticipatory Affect Model
    • Risk Aversion
    • Guest lecture
    • Test
  • Week 8. The Social Brain: Games in the Brain
    • Decisions in Groups
    • Mirror Neurons & Empathy
    • Test
  • Week 9. Evolutionary Perspective of Decision-Making
    • Ontogenetic Origin of Cooperative Decisions
    • Biological Markets
    • Capuchin Monkeys
    • Test

Taught by

Vasily Klucharev

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