Neuroeconomic Studies on Personality and Decision-Making.

详细信息   

• 作者：Hawes ; Daniel Rohan.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2013
• 毕业院校：University of Minnesota
• Department：Applied Economics.
• ISBN：9781321086416
• CBH：3630610
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：3153933
• Pages：85

文摘

Neural activity causally underlies human cognition and behavior. Investigating the neurobiological principles and computational mechanisms governing brain activity during decision-making provides a way to improve theories of human behavior in the natural as well as social sciences Glimcher & Rustichini 2004； Rustichini,2009； Fehr & Rangel,2009). In this context,the discipline of Neuroeconomics was originally conceived as an endeavor to interrogate neural activity during economic decision-making with the aim of evaluating competing decision theories Rustichini,2008； Glimcher,Camerer,Fehr & Poldrack 2009). From this origin,Neuroeconomics has evolved into a full-fledged enterprise of consilience； an attempt to not only test and bridge,but truly unify natural science and social science explanations of human behavior Wilson,1998； Glimcher & Rustichini,2004； Rangel,Camerer & Montague,2008). This dissertation binds two neuroeconomic studies of decision-making with an introduction and concluding commentary. The introduction presents a brief introduction to Neuroeconomics,meant to locate both research studies in the existing literature and philosophy of this field. The conclusion provides a brief appraisal of the role of Neuroeconomics in further advancing the kind of research into decision-making reported here. Both studies in this dissertation comprise investigations of human behavior during experience-based decision-making,with a special focus on the fundamental value computations that underlie such choice behavior. Study 1 investigates the role of neural reinforcement signals during learning of a strategic decision task from experience. Study 2 investigates the moderating effect of intelligence on neural reinforcement signals during a sequential binary choice task. Study 1 is reproduced from Hawes,Vostroknutov & Rustichini 2013),and study 2 is reproduced from Hawes,DeYoung,Gray & Rustichini； under review).