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Repository for Ed Awh's presentation at the CSS Workshop (1/10/2018)
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Application to Neuroeconomics #30

Open fulinguo opened 5 years ago

fulinguo commented 5 years ago

I was wondering whether this research can be applied to neuroeconomic research? In economics, understanding humans' decision making process is very important because it is the basis of many economic theories. Resource processing and humans' attention are important aspects in decision making. This paper provides some understandings between the brain activity and spatial attention. I was curious about could these findings benefit neuroeconomic research? Thanks for your presentation!

edawh commented 5 years ago

I suspect the approach could be useful for neuroeconomics. For instance, this method could be used to measure attentional biases between alternatives, which could provide an indirect measure of past reward or current preference for an item. It wouldn't be an easy study, but seems at least theoretically plausible.