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Neuroeconomics Paul W. Glimcher (New York University, Center for Neural Sciences, NY, USA)

Neuroeconomics By Paul W. Glimcher (New York University, Center for Neural Sciences, NY, USA)

Summary

Features five sections designed to serve as both classroom-friendly introductions to each of the major subareas in neuroeconomics, and as advanced synopses of all that has been accomplished over the years in this rapidly expanding academic discipline.

Neuroeconomics Summary

Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Paul W. Glimcher (New York University, Center for Neural Sciences, NY, USA)

In the years since it first published, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain has become the standard reference and textbook in the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics. The second edition, a nearly complete revision of this landmark book, will set a new standard. This new edition features five sections designed to serve as both classroom-friendly introductions to each of the major subareas in neuroeconomics, and as advanced synopses of all that has been accomplished in the last two decades in this rapidly expanding academic discipline. The first of these sections provides useful introductions to the disciplines of microeconomics, the psychology of judgment and decision, computational neuroscience, and anthropology for scholars and students seeking interdisciplinary breadth. The second section provides an overview of how human and animal preferences are represented in the mammalian nervous systems. Chapters on risk, time preferences, social preferences, emotion, pharmacology, and common neural currencieseach written by leading expertslay out the foundations of neuroeconomic thought. The third section contains both overview and in-depth chapters on the fundamentals of reinforcement learning, value learning, and value representation. The fourth section, The Neural Mechanisms for Choice, integrates what is known about the decision-making architecture into state-of-the-art models of how we make choices. The final section embeds these mechanisms in a larger social context, showing how these mechanisms function during social decision-making in both humans and animals. The book provides a historically rich exposition in each of its chapters and emphasizes both the accomplishments and the controversies in the field. A clear explanatory style and a single expository voice characterize all chapters, making core issues in economics, psychology, and neuroscience accessible to scholars from all disciplines. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in neuroeconomics in particular or decision making in general.

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"This fully revised, second edition comes five years after the first and reflects the tremendous growth in the field of neurobiology of decision makingThe text, uniformly well written and accessible, does not shy away from controversies in the research. This is an excellent text for either a graduate course or a very advanced undergraduate course on the subject." Summing Up: Recommended. --CHOICE Reviews Online, June 2014 "This book describes neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience and behavioral economics, with the goal of understanding how economic policies influence motivation on a neuropsychological level and, ultimately, behaviorThis is an excellent bookIt should be in the libraries of students and professionals interested in neuroeconomics."Rating: 4 Stars --Doody.com, April 4, 2014 Reviews for the First Edition: "Neuroeconomics is a timely collection of papers by leading researchers from both sides of the border between economics and neuroscienceThe book should be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered about the mechanics of how decisions are made in the brain, and what it means about human nature." --VINCE CRAWFORD, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, USA "Economists pride themselves on rigorous parsimony. By taking the neural correlates of behavior into account, potentially explanatory variables explode. This book shows when digging deeper nonetheless pays for economics, and how to do it well." --CHRISTOPH ENGEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS, BONN, GERMANY "For those onlookers who cant quite accept that neuroscience may provide insight into how we decide what course of action to follow, the contributors to this comprehensive volume offer some very compelling, and very serious experimental and theoretical insights. Highly recommended, and enormously provocative." --FLOYD BLOOM, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, DEPARTMENT OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGY, THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LA JOLLA, USA

About Paul W. Glimcher (New York University, Center for Neural Sciences, NY, USA)

Paul W. Glimcher, Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics and Psychology at New York University. Director, Center for Neuroeconomics, NYU. A.B. - Princeton University, Magna cum Laude. Ph.D. -University of Pennsylvania, Neuroscience. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Association for Psychological Science and the McKnight, Whitehall, Klingenstein and McDonnell Foundations. Investigator of the National Eye Institute, The National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute on Aging. Founding President of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Winner of the Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences, 2003. Winner of NYUs Distinguished (Lifetime Accomplishment) Teaching Award, 2006. Member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. Publications in Nature, Science, Neuron, Journal of Neurophysiology, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Vision Research, Experimental Brain Research, MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science and numerous edited volumes. He is the author of: Decisions, Uncertainty and, the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics, 2003 from MIT Press. Winner of the American Association of Publishers Medical Sciences Book of the Year, 2003. Neuroeconomics. Decision Making and the Brain, 2009 from Academic Press. Winner of the American Association of Publishers Economics and Social Sciences Book of the Year Awards, 2009. Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, 2011 from Oxford University Press. Neuroeconomics. Decision Making and the Brain 2nd ed. 2013. Professor Glimchers work has been covered by the popular press in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Money Magazine, New Scientist, and on National Public Radio, The BBC, Le Monde, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, La Vanguardia, Fox News, and NOVA amongst others. http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Section 1: The Fundamental Tools of Neuroeconomics 1. Basic Methods from Neoclassical Economics 2. Experimental Economics and Experimental Game Theory 3. Computational Models of Decision-Making from Psychology and Behavioral Economics 4. Estimation and Testing of Computational Models 5. Computational Neuroscience 6. Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 7. The Economics of Non-Human Primates Section 2: Risk, Time, Social and Emotional Preferences 8. Computation of value in simple choices 9. Valuation for Risky and Uncertain Choices 10. Valuation, Intertemporal Choice and Self Control 11. Neuroeconomics of Social Preferences 12. The Study of Emotion in Decision Making 13. Valuation and Common Neural Currencies 14. The pharmacology of economic and social decision-making Section 3: Learning and Valuation 15. Value Learning through Reinforcement: The Basics of Dopamine and RL 16. Advanced Issues in Reinforcement Learning 17. The Basal Ganglia, Reinforcement Learning and The Encoding of Value 18. From Experienced Utility to Decision Utility Section 4: The Neural Mechanisms for Choice 19. Neural Mechanisms for Perceptual Decision-Making 20. Value-based Decision-Making 21. Multiple Systems for Valuation and Choice 22. Integrating Benefits and Costs in Decision-Making 23. Dynamic Neuronal Models of Choice 24. Reference Dependent Values and Normalization Section 5: Brain Circuitry of Social Valuation and Social Choice 25. The Brain Circuity for Strategic Interactions 26. The Brain Circuity for social decision-making in non-human primates 27. Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy Epilogue: Summary, Conclusions, and Prognostications Appendix: Using Prospect Theory

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GOR012790548
9780124160088
0124160085
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Paul W. Glimcher (New York University, Center for Neural Sciences, NY, USA)
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2013-10-03
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