Antoine Bechara, the inventer of the Iowa Gambling Task, and together with Antonio Damasio the architect of the “somatic marker hypothesis” is visiting the Decision Neuroscience Research Group at the Copenhagen Business School at the moment. Here he is explaining to Thomas the role of gut feelings in making a decision to drink the bad [...]
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Gut feelings in Copenhagen
Posted in decision making, emotions, neuroeconomics, people on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Readings in neuroeconomics
Posted in decision making, education, neuroeconomics, web resource on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During the spring of 2009 I organized a course course entitled “Neuroeconomics”, together with Prof.s Elke Weber and Eric Johnson. In this course, we made a compendium of articles on neuroeconomics. Fortunately, almost all of those papers were to be found on the web.
On a new page on the BrainEthics site, we bring you the [...]
Decisions, decisions – and the brain
Posted in decision making, emotions, neuroeconomics, neuroscience on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
-Thomas
A hidden island of value-based decisions
Posted in brain injury, decision making, emotions, neuroeconomics on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following up on my lead on Antoine Bechara’s upcoming visit, it is worthnotinv one of the new trends in decision making research. In particular, working from an extension of the somatic market theory and the role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPfC), Bechara and colleagues have recently demonstrated how the role of the insula seems to [...]
Big names coming to CPH
Posted in decision making, emotions, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, people on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I mentioned in my previous post, I am currently giving lectures on an April course on neuroeconomics together with Prf.s Elke Weber and Eric Johnson. Needless to say, these lectures are probably as entertaining and useful for me, and my attending colleagues, as they are to the students.
However, change is coming to Copenhagen. Through [...]
Bloggin’ back to live…now with more meat
Posted in blog, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emergence of emergence abound, we are coming to life again. After a long a chilly winter here in Denmark, we have not been on the lazy side in our neuro-caves. At present, our newly founded (1-year old) Decision Neuroscience Research Group has grown rapidly from 2 persons to 9, and with an abundance of contacts [...]
Neuroeconomy in Munich
Posted in conference, neuroeconomics on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In case any of you have plans for going to the first NeuroPsychoEconomics conference in Munich this Thursday and Friday, let me know. Or if you’re just in the vicinity, you can also let me know. Neuroethicists and cognitive neuroscientists alike (as well as every else interested in this blog) should probably meet whenever possible.
The [...]
Brain value — recent updates
Posted in decision making, journals, neuroeconomics on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Current Opinion in Neurobiology now hosts a wonderful special issue on “Cognitive Neuroscience”. Well, it’s actually more narrow and to the point than this. Many of the articles are about the neurobiology of preference formation and decision making. The following articles are included:
Dissociating explicit timing from temporal expectation with fMRI
by JT Coull, AC Nobre
The neurobiology [...]
Brainless economics no more
Posted in decision making, neuroeconomics, unconscious processes on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Does economics need brain science? This is the aim of a recent article in the Economist. Throughout the history of economics, major advances have sometimes come from areas outside of the core discipline. Just as similar developments in other scientific disciplines. This includes the influence from psychology, which has demonstrated that decisions are not made [...]
Sway — irrational desires and errors
Posted in book, consciousness, decision making, free will, neuroeconomics, people, politics, unconscious processes on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just noticed this very attractive title by the Brafman brothers- The book, Sway – the irresistable pull of irrational behavior, “will challenge your every thought”, according to a NY Times review. And it gets similarly good reviews from other prominent people, like Michael Shermer, the author of the recent book The mind of the market, [...]
