Decision making neural and behavioural approaches / edited by V.S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, Narayanan Srinivasan.

Other author Pammi, V. S. Chandrasekhar.
Other author Srinivasan, Narayanan.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoAmsterdam : Elsevier, 2013.
Descriptionxxv, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Book Series Package - Life Sciences [BSLFSC]
Subjects
Decision Making
Cognition--physiology.
Neurosciences--methods.

Uniform titleDecision making (Pammi)
SeriesProgress in brain research, 0079-6123 ; volume 202
Progress in brain research v. 202. 0079-6123 ^A75148
Contents Behavioral approaches -- Surprise: a belief or an emotion? -- The impact of affect on willingness-to-pay and desired-set-size -- Role of affect in decision making -- Mind the gap? Description, experience, and the continuum of uncertainty in risky choice -- The boundaries of instance-based learning theory for explaining decisions from experience -- The experience-description gap and the role of the inter decision interval -- Attention in preferential choice -- Spoken language and the decision to move the eyes: to what extent are language-mediated eye movements automatic? -- The influence of probability format on elicited certainty equivalents -- On the evaluation of cultural and environmental public goods, and its implications for social innovation -- The effect of analytic and experiential modes of thought on moral judgment -- Understanding consumer decisions using behavioral economics -- Neural and computational approaches -- Contextual and social influences on valuation and choice -- Understanding decision neuroscience: a multidisciplinary perspective and neural substrates -- Why bother with the brain? A role for decision neuroscience in understanding strategic variability -- Neural coding of computational factors affecting decision making -- Brain mechanisms controlling decision making and motor planning -- Development of cognitive and affective control networks and decision making -- An attentional theory of emotional influences on risky decisions -- A model of the neural substrates for exploratory dynamics in basal ganglia -- The effect of novelty on reinforcement learning -- Medial prefrontal cortex and the adaptive regulation of reinforcement learning parameters -- Relativized hierarchical decomposition of Markov decision processes.
Summary This volume explores interdisciplinary research on decision making taking a neural and behavioural approach. Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation, and provide their views and perspectives for future research. Each chapter is extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics covered.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN0444626042
ISBN9780444626042