Recently added articles from Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience:
Introduction
Dec 01, 2008; ... In October 2006, a group of young PhD students and postdocs from all over Europe followed the call of the German Volkswagen foundation to convene in Berlin and discuss their common research interests. The Volkswagen initiative, called the "European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and ...
Understanding risk: A guide for the perplexed
Dec 01, 2008; ... Over the course of the past decade, neurobiologists have become increasingly interested in concepts and models imported from economics. Terms such as "risk," "risk aversion," and "utility" have become commonplace in the neuroscientific literature as single-unit physiologists and human cognitive ...
Dual or unitary system? Two alternative models of decision making
Dec 01, 2008; ... In recent years, a lively debate in neuroeconomics has focused on what appears to be a fundamental question: Is the brain a unitary or a dual system? We are still far from a consensus view. The accumulating evidence supports both sides of the debate. A reason for the difficulty in reaching a ...
Neurobiological studies of risk assessment: A comparison of expected utility and mean-variance approaches
Dec 01, 2008; ... When modeling valuation under uncertainty, economists generally prefer expected utility because it has an axiomatic foundation, meaning that the resulting choices will satisfy a number of rationality requirements. In expected utility theory, values are computed by multiplying probabilities of ...
Cortico-limbic-striatal circuits subserving different forms of cost-benefit decision making
Dec 01, 2008; ... Research on the neural basis that underlies decision making in humans has revealed that these processes are mediated by distributed neural networks that incorporate different regions of the frontal lobes, the amygdala, the ventral striatum, and the dopamine system. In the present article, we ...