Papers of Interest

Fall 2008

The biweekly meetings are organized jointly by the Department of Economics (AE1) and Department of Cognitive Neuroscience. Participants present overviews of recent research in Neuroeconomics.

January

• January 28, 14:00-15:00, A1.23 (TGS53)
  Sanae Barth (PSYCHOLOGY)
  Boaz Keysar et al. (2008): Reciprocity Is Not Give and Take: Asymmetric Reciprocity to Positive and Negative Acts, Psychological Science, vol. 19(12) Theo Offerman (2002): Hurting hurts more than helping helps, European Economic Review 46

February

• February 11, 14:00-15:00, (TGS53)
  Arno Riedl (AE1)
  Asymmetry in Reciprocity? Part 1: Behavioral Evidence

March

• March 4, 13:30-14:30, A1.23, (TGS53)
  Anne Fett (SP)
  Brain anatomy and functioning

March 11, 14:30-15:30, A1.22 (TGS53)
Alexander Vostroknutov (AE1)
Competition with Skill and Luck: an fMRI Study
abstract

April

• April 15, 14:00-15:00
  Iraz Kilic (MW)
  Communication behavior of the doctor evokes different types of feelings: Does tuning of feelings take place before cognitive tuning?

 

• April 29, 14:00-15:00
  Brainstorming session: sharing ideas on future neuro research

May

• May 12 , 13:00-14:00, 4.760, Universiteitssingel 40
  Brainstorming session part 2

 

• May 26 , 13:00-14:30
  3.749a, Universiteitssingel 40 Oost
  Brainstorming session part 3

June

• June 10 , 14:00-15:00, TGS53
  Eva Woelbert (FPN)
  Endowment Effects

 

• June 24 , 14:00-15:00
  Volunteer needed

 

Papers of Interest

• Yevgeniy B. Sirotin and Aniruddha Das (2009): Anticipatory haemodynamic signals in sensory cortex not predicted by local neuronal activity, Nature 457, 475-479

• Katja N. Spreckelmeyer et al. (2009): Anticipation of monetary and social reward differently activates mesolimbic brain structures in men and women, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, available online

• Stone, V. et al. (2002): Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), 99(17), 11531-11536

• Zethraeus N. et al. (2009): A randomized trial of the effect of estrogen and testosterone on economic behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(16), 6535-6538

If you want to participate, please contact me, I will include you in the email list.

Contact: Alexander Vostroknutov
a.vostroknutov@algec.unimaas.nl