Магистратура
2026/2027
Введение в нейроэкономику: как мозг принимает решения
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Когнитивные науки и технологии: от нейрона к познанию)
Кто читает:
Институт когнитивных нейронаук
Где читается:
Институт когнитивных нейронаук
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
44
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Economics, psychology, and neuroscience are converging today into a unified discipline of Neuroeconomics with the ultimate aim of providing a single, general theory of human decision making. Neuroeconomics provides economists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions, and how others decide. Are we hard-wired to be risk-averse or risk seeking? How is a “fair decision” evaluated by the brain? Is it possible today to predict the purchasing intentions of a consumer? Can we modulate economic behaviour affecting the brain? Neuroscience allied to psychology and economics have powerful models and evidence to explain why we make a decision. Decision-making in financial markets, trust and cooperation in teams, consumer persuasion, will be central issues in this course in neuroeconomics. You will be provided with the most recent evidence from brain-imaging techniques (PET, fMRI and TMS), and you will be introduced to the explanatory models behind them.
Learning Objectives
- Assumptions of Neuroeconomics
- Methods of Neuroeconomics
- The functional role of various brain regions in decision-making
- Evolutionary approach of Neuroeconomics
- Neuroeconomics of decisions in groups
- Neural representation of the subjective value, basal ganglia and choice value
- Affective mechanisms of decision-making
- Dual process theory of decision-making
- Limitations of Neuroeconomics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Provide a historical overview of the field.
- Be able to interpret the results of the studies conducted with brain-imaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI), brain stimulation (TMS), cell recording.
- Be able to quantify the information with the application of neuro-cognitive models of the choice
- To able to interpret the results of the studies using the basics of behavioral economics
- Analyze and interpret the information on the neural representation of the subjective value, basal ganglia and choice value
- Evaluate the affective mechanisms of decision-making
- Apply dual process theory of decision-making
- Interpret foraging theory from an evolutionary perspective
- Interpret the mechanisms of social interaction from the neuroeconomics perspective
- Interpret the results of the primate studies of economic behaviour
Course Contents
- Introduction. Introduction to Neuroeconomics, a historical overview of the field.
- Measuring brain activity: Brain-imaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI), brain stimulation (TMS), cell recording, data visualization, interpretation of the results
- Introducing brain models of decision-making and choice. Neuro-cognitive models of the choice: comparison with formal models of decision-making.
- Behavioral economics as a foundation of Neuroeconomics
- Neural representation of the subjective value, basal ganglia and choice value
- Affective mechanisms of decision-making
- Dual process theory of decision-making
- Foraging theory (economic behavior of animals)
- The social brain: Games in the brain
- Animals’ economy - a model of human economy.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Colin F. Camerer. (2007). Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions. Economic Journal, (519), 26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02033.x
- Neuroeconomics 2nd Edition Decision Making and the Brain Academic Press; 2nd edition (October 11, 2013)
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Dennison, Jeffrey B., Daniel Sazhin, and David V. Smith. "Decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics: Recent progress and ongoing challenges." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 13.3 (2022): e1589