Course "Introduction to Neuroeconomics" (EC 490): syllabus & lectures

EC 490, "Introduction to Neuroeconomics" 2009 syllabus

 

Lecture 1: Investment and perceptual error

 

Lecture 2: Investment and emotional responses

 

Lecture 3: Neural information processing

 

Lecture 4: Basic brain dynamics

 

Lecture 5: Neuroanatomy

 

Lecture 6: Psychology of emotion

 

Lecture 7: Neuroeconomics of emotion

 

Lecture 8: Capuchin economics

 

Lecture 9: Neural observations of game play

 

Lecture 10: Social preferences

 

Lecture 11: Primate inequity aversion

 

Lecture 12: Isolating decision variables

 

Lecture 13: Functionally parsing the striatum

 

Lecture 14: Dopaminergic value learning

 

Lecture 15: Reinforcement learning theory

 

Lecture 16: Neuroeconomics of addiction

 

Lecture 17: Implementation of learning in stochastic response systems

 

Lecture 18: Glimcher's comprehensive view of neural valuation