Date:
July 12 - July 25, 2015.
Venue:
Pudong Campus of NYU Shanghai, China
Sponsors:
NYU Shanghai, NYU, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Kunshan University and East China Normal University
Introduction:
The goal of the Neuroeconomics Summer Institute is to bring together post-docs and advanced graduate students in neuroscience, psychology, economics and related disciplines for intensive and advanced study of the rapdily growing interdisciplinary field of neuroeconomics. The course will feature daily lectures, morning and afternoon, by leading international faculty on Neuroeconomics. Workshops and experimental projects will take place in the evenings.
Lecture topics include introductions to economics, the psychology of judgement and decision-making, the neuroanatomy and physiology of decision-making, and computational modelling. The course will cover experiment and theoretical work on economic decision making in humans as well as animal models.