- •Indicate (on the picture) key brain regions: Lobes (occipital. Temporal…), striatum, amygdale, orbitofrontal cortex…
- •Ventral
- •Describe basic principles and advantages (disadvantages) of the method:
- •Please explain the following terms:
- •What is the bold signal? How is the bold signal related to actions potentials and to fMri method?
- •Explain the ‘diffusion’ model of decision making
- •Illustrate decision making properties of lip decision-making) neurons. Why do we call lip neurons – decision making neurons?
- •Please explain the following terms:
- •Explain the functional role of the orbitofrontal cortex (ofc)
- •Indicate the location of the ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens and explain the functional role of ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens , give examples
- •Explain phenomena of self-stimulation
- •What is dopamine?
- •In anticipatory time window
- •How impaired is the behavior of (Damasio’s) patients with damage to the ventromedial (orbitofrontal cortex) prefrontal cortex
- •Explain the anticipatory affect model of risk (Brian Knutson)
- •What is “dual processing”? Give neuroeconomics evidences of “dual processing” in the brain. (6.4)
- •Describe the rules of the ultimatum game. How is it useful to study economic rationality?
- •Describe the idea of mirror neurons
- •Describe Empathy for pain experiments by t. Singer et al. (2004)
- •Explain how to trade with capuchins monkeys. Do capuchins obey price theory, do they maximize expected value? (illustrate)
- •Explain the idea of Biological Markets (give an example)- видео 9.2
Explain the idea of Biological Markets (give an example)- видео 9.2
Biological market theory
• BM (Ronald Noe and Peter Hammerstein) theory predicts that changes in the supply-demand ratio should result in directional shifts in cooperation or in the exchange values of goods and
services.
• Biological market theory predicts that partner choice can lead to selection for specific traits. Skills that are important in the selection of cooperation partners:
judging the partner’s quality,
a memory for the partner’s quality and location,
searching strategies,
judging the honesty of signals and so on.
Примеры:
Cleaners and coral fishes – a case of biological market
Infant market (grooming behavior)
Supply and demand determine the market value of food providers in wild vervet monkeys
Biological market approach
1. Explain adaptations that are the result of “market selection.” Market selection explains the evolution of mechanisms enabling
partner choice as well as adaptations that increase the chances of being chosen in cooperative systems.
2. Predict changes in exchange rates of commodities due to changes in the supply/demand ratio between these commodities.
Be able to review all articles used for the group tasks .