Dopamine, Reward Prediction Error, and Economics
为多巴胺的“奖励预测误差”假说提供公理化基础，旨在弥合神经科学与经济学之间的概念鸿沟，帮助理解信念和偏好的形成与演化。
The neurotransmitter dopamine has been found to play a crucial role in choice, learning, and belief formation. The best-developed current theory of dopaminergic function is the "reward prediction error" hypothesis—that dopamine encodes the difference between the experienced and predicted "reward" of an event. We provide axiomatic foundations for this hypothesis to help bridge the current conceptual gap between neuroscience and economics. Continued research in this area of overlap between social and natural science promises to overhaul our understanding of how beliefs and preferences are formed, how they evolve, and how they play out in the act of choice.