PRELIMINARY READINGS

In preparation for the school we would like you to complete the following readings BEFORE coming to the Summer School. You may skip any material for which, due to your background, you already posses a good level of understanding.

Neuroscience

Rosenzwig, Breedlove and Watson. Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. 4th Edition.
Chapter 2 Functional neuroanatomy
Chapter 3 Neurophysiology
Chapter 8 General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch and Pain
Chapter 15 Emotions, Aggression and Stress

Economics

Kreps. A Course in Microeconomic Theory.
Chapter 3 Choice under uncertainty
Chapter 5 Social Choice and efficiency
Chapter 11 Modeling competitive situations
Chapter 12 Solution concepts for noncooperative games

Camerer (2005) Behavioral Economics, paper prepared for the World Congress of the Econometric Society.

Rabin (1998) Psychology and Economics, Journal of Economic Literature.



SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS FOR LECTURES

Berridge

(2006) Decision utility, incentive salience, and cue-triggered ‘wanting’

Busemeyer

(2003) Computational models of decision making

(2005) Micro-process Models of Decision Making

Extending the Bounds of Rationality: Evidence and Theories of Preferential Choice

(2006) Building Bridges between Neural Models and Complex Decision Making Behavior

Camerer

(2006) When Does "Economic Man" Dominate Social Behavior?

(2005) Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making

Cohen

(2004) Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

(2005) The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: A Neural Perspective on Interactions Between Cognition and Emotion

Daw

(2005) Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control

Kahneman

Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics

Knutson

(2005) Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction

(2005) The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking

Laibson

(1999) Mixing Virtue and Vice: Combining the Immediacy Effect and the Diversification Heuristic

Phelps

(2006) Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala

(2005) Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

Platt

(2005) Risk-sensitive neurons in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

(1999) Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex

(2002) Neural correlates of decisions

Weber

Reasons for Rank Dependent Utility Valuations