To make adaptive decisions, animals must evaluate the costs and benefits of available
options. The nascent field of neuroeconomics has set itself the ambitious goal of …

Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our
decisions—from the mundane to the impossibly complex—continually shape the courses of …

How do humans make choices between different types of rewards? Economists have long
argued on theoretical grounds that humans typically make these choices as if the values of …

Economic choices are largely determined by two principal elements, reward value (utility)
and probability. Although nonlinear utility functions have been acknowledged for centuries …

When we make decisions, the benefits of an option often need to be weighed against
accompanying costs. Little is known, however, about the neural systems underlying such …

In the years since it first published, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain has
become the standard reference and textbook in the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics …

A new academic field, neuroeconomics, has emerged at the border of the social and natural
sciences. In Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, Paul Glimcher argues that a …

Results of recent studies point towards a new framework for the neural bases of economic
choice. The principles of this framework include the idea that evaluation is limited to a single …

Maladaptive decision-making is increasingly recognized to play a significant role in
numerous psychiatric disorders, such that therapeutics capable of ameliorating core …

Economic goods may vary on multiple dimensions (determinants). A central conjecture in
decision neuroscience is that choices between goods are made by comparing subjective …