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Introduction To The Special Issue Of Economics And Philosophy On Neuroeconomics

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  • Bonanno, Giacomo
  • List, Christian
  • Tungodden, Bertil
  • Vallentyne, Peter

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The past fifteen years or so have witnessed considerable progress in our understanding of how the human brain works. One of the objectives of the fast-growing field of neuroscience is to deepen our knowledge of how the brain perceives and interacts with the external world. Advances in this direction have been made possible by progress in brain imaging techniques and by clinical data obtained from patients with localized brain lesions. A relatively new field within neuroscience is neuroeconomics, which focuses on individual decision making and aims to systematically classify and map the brain activity that correlates with decision-making that pertains to economic choices. Neuroeconomic studies rely heavily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures the haemodynamic response (that is, changes in the blood flow) related to neural activity in the brain.

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  • Bonanno, Giacomo & List, Christian & Tungodden, Bertil & Vallentyne, Peter, 2008. "Introduction To The Special Issue Of Economics And Philosophy On Neuroeconomics," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24(3), pages 301-302, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:24:y:2008:i:03:p:301-302_00
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    1. Amos Arieli & Yaniv Ben-Ami & Ariel Rubinstein, 2009. "Fairness Motivations and Procedures of Choice between Lotteries as Revealed through Eye Movements," Levine's Working Paper Archive 814577000000000219, David K. Levine.

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