Is There a Method of Neuroeconomics

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rustichini, Aldo
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7669
• DOI: 10.1257/mic.1.2.48
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 48-59
• 关键词: dopamine neurons; decision-making; orbitofrontal cortex; reward; regret; reinforcement; responses; striatum; BEHAVIOR; axioms

摘要

This note tries to state, precisely, the method of neuroecomics, and is based on the discussion in B. Douglas Bernheim's (2009) appraisal. We claim that the theory formulates hypotheses modeling the choice process as an algorithmic procedure. The hypothesis of the algorithmic procedure imposes restriction on the neural processes implementing it, and, so, a joint test of the hypothesis based on behavioral and neural data is possible, increasing the statistical and the explanatory power of the theory.