It's about Space, It's about Time, Neuroeconomics and the Brain Sublime
对比了神经经济学中两种研究大脑的方法:一种关注空间定位(如认知与情感、理性与非理性相关脑区),另一种关注时间动态(如脑活动的时间模式),并评估了神经经济学的现状。
Neuroeconomics has investigated which regions of the brain are associated with the factors contributing to economic decision making, emphasizing the position in space of brain areas associated with the factors of decision making—cognitive or emotive, rational or irrational. An alternative view of the brain has given priority to time over space, investigating the temporal patterns of brain dynamics to determine the nature of the brain's intrinsic dynamics, how its various activities change over time. These two ways of approaching the brain are contrasted in this essay to gauge the contemporary status of neuroeconomics.