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Neuroeconomics on the rise

Posted in decision making, journals, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The burgeoning field of neuroeconomics is on the rise, now with a few journal updates. First, let me introduce two new journals:
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
This journal “publishes original research dealing with the application of psychological theories and/or neuroscientific methods to business and economics. As an interdisciplinary journal, JNPE serves academicians in the fields [...]

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Copenhagen Conference on Neuroeconomics — ConNEcs

Posted in conference, decision making, emotions, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A unique opportunity to learn about contemporary neuroeconomics

We are writing to you in connection with the Conference on Neuroeconomics (ConNEcs 2008), which is going to take place at the Copenhagen Business School May 14-16, 2008. The conference is arranged by Center for Marketing Communication in cooperation with Hilke Plassmann (CalTech, US) and Peter Kenning (Zeppelin [...]

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Free (!) access to neuroethics…

Posted in journals, neuroethics on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Seems as if Springer is making a good move on promoting their new journal, Neuroethics. As the message says, they will provide free access to articles during 2008 and 2009.
Well, THAT is something to celebrate. Here at BrainEthics, we will certainly follow the titles as they come, hopefully also comment on them, and even more [...]

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My grandmother is where?

Posted in brain connectivity, memory, modularity on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

How specific — or sparse — is the neural representation of a memory trace? Quian Quiroga and colleagues now have an article in Neuron (PDF), where they describe their well-known studies using single-cell recordings to well-known faces. As you most likely know, this has given rise to the debate about the “Jennifer Aniston neuron”. Their [...]

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Proteins and memory — latest must-read

Posted in genetics, journals, memory on March 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Ever wondered about the neurobiology of memory — how the brain stores information? And, if you know slightly more, how information is stored beyond the hippocampus, or what happens to memory during recall? If you have anything to do with memory — even having a slight interest in the topic — the journal Neurobiology of [...]

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Zimmer interviews Mike Gazzaniga

Posted in Web Resources, law, people on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Michael Gazzaniga is one of the directors of a very interesting new neuroethics project, The Law & Neuroscience Project, supported finacially by The MacArthur Fondation. The aim of the project is to convene experts from a number of disciplines (neuroscience, law, philosophy, etc.) to discuss how our understanding of the brain impacts – or, [...]

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Copenhagen Conference on Neuroeconomics

Posted in conference, decision making, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In May 15-16 this year, the Copenhagen Business School arranges a conference on neuroeconomics. According to the mission statement, the idea is to “provide an international discussion forum for research in the intersection of the psychology and neuroscience of decision-making and to set a stage for the presentation of recent contributions.”
I will [...]

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Out of sync with the blogosphere

Posted in blog on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yes, we’ve been! It’s therefore strange — and wonderful — to see that we are still receiving several hundreds of visitors every day. You are all welcome.
A brief update on our “missing in action”: Martin has been most busy analysing several paradigms, writing chapters and editing books. I’m sure Martin will send an update on [...]

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