Neuroeconomics
Decision Making and the Brain
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Description
Key Features
* Presents an interdisciplinary view of the approaches, concepts, and results of the emerging field of neuroeconomics relevant for anyone interested in this area of research
* Full-color presentation throughout with carefully selected illustrations to highlight key concepts
Readership
Table of Contents
- Editor in Chief: Paul W. Glimcher, New York University
Associate Editors:
Colin Camerer, CalTech
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Russ Poldrak, UCLA
Wolfram Schultz: Dopamine and Decision
Camillo Padua-Schioppa and John Assad: Coding Reward Value in the Orbitofrontal Cortex
Russ Poldrak and Craig Fox: Prospect Theory, Decision and Risk
Brian Knutson and Maricio Delgado: Neural Representations of Value
Elke Weber: Neural Representations of Risk and Risk Aversion
David Laibson: Decisions in Time: Temporal Discounting
George Loewenstein and Jon Cohen: Multiple-Selves Approaches to the Study of Decision
Paul Glimcher: A Generalized Theory of Neural Decision
Elizabeth Phelps: Fear, Emotion and Decision
Michael Platt: The Neurobiology of Social Decision in Non-Human Primates
Read Montague: 2-person games and decision
Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith: Cooperation and Social Decision Making
Ernst Fehr: Social Decision making, Trust and Inequity Aversion
Aldo Rustichini and Andrew Caplin: Axiomatic Approaches to Neuroeconomics
Colin Camerer: Games and Decision, a Neurocognitive Approach
Product details
- No. of pages: 556
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2008
- Published: October 3, 2008
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080921068
About the Editors
Paul W. Glimcher
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 NYU’s 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 Glimcher’s 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