* How Neuroscience Interfaces With Economics -
Excellent overview of the champaign of neuroeconomics.
* Wired for Irrationality? -
This Business Week summary examines why logic takes a backseat with much conclusion making.
* How Brains Deal With Uncertainty -
This research finds that encephalon mechanisms for dealing with dubiety that develops over curt fourth dimension periods (as inwards trading) are unlike from those that bargain with dubiety that depends upon by learned associations. Might y'all hold out able to differentiate successful from unsuccessful short-term traders from their patterns of encephalon activation spell making decisions?
* Intriguing Review of Cognitive Neuroscience Research -
This article suggests that a multifariousness of disorders have, at their root, a dysfunction inwards how neural activity inwards unlike areas is coordinated: "The impairments of neural synchrony observed inwards schizophrenia, autism, in addition to AD [Alzheimer's Disease] are consistent with electrical flow theories that emphasize a disconnection syndrome every bit the underlying pathophysiological mechanism. According to these theories, cognitive dysfunctions too every bit the overt symptoms of these disorders arise from a dysfunction inwards the coordination of distributed neural activity betwixt in addition to inside functionally specialized regions of the cerebral cortex." Might it hold out the illustration that roughly individuals create got exceptionally good developed neural coordination, accounting for distinctive cognitive performance?
* Risk Seeking? - In
this study, monkeys are a alternative betwixt 2 alternatives: both Pb to the same hateful reward, only 1 alternative has higher variability than the other. Like roughly traders, monkeys exhibit a preference for the risky (high variation) choices, in addition to an expanse of their brains responsible for the processing of rewards is implicated.
* Prepare for the Worst? -
This study finds that, when people are led to human face visual stimuli that are pleasant or unpleasant, they activate the parts of the encephalon appropriate for each. When they are led to human face unknown stimuli, however, they activate the areas appropriate for unpleasant reactions. Such a "pessimistic bias" brand may sense, every bit the authors note: "Since nosotros practise non know what hereafter holds for us, nosotros laid upward for expected emotional events inwards guild to bargain with a pleasant or threatening environment. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes feel to hold out especially prepared for the worst-case scenario." Might nosotros come across a unlike designing of activation with occupation gamblers in addition to addictive traders?
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