Frontiers in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
Instructors
Ernst Fehr, Markus Heinrichs, ,Tania Singer, Klaas Enno Stephan
Day, time
Thursday, 8:00-9:45 am
Location
KO2-F-153
Final examination
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 8:00-9:45 am, KOL-G-204
Course description
This interdisciplinary lecture series covers a wide range of “hot topics” in social neuroscience and neuroeconomics, addressing the experimental, theoretical, and methodological issues which are at the center of the current scientific discourse. Each lecture introduces a particular problem and the available state-of-the-art methods for addressing it, followed by a discussion that involves active participation by the audience. The aim is to (i) familiarize scientists with current concepts and perspectives from different fields, (ii) enable them to broaden their methodological expertise, and (iii) stimulate concrete collaborations across disciplines.
Certificates of course participation (2 credit points) can be obtained by students who attend the course regularly and pass the final written examination (pass/fail grading for ZNZ participants; 1-6 grading for Master and lic. students).
Course registration
If you wish to attend this course, please send an e-mail with your name, address, telephone number, and student ID number (Matrikelnummer) to therz@iew.uzh.ch
Course schedule
| Date | Topic (Instructors) | Presentations |
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| 09/18/08 | Decision making under uncertainty (Adrian Bruhin, Kerstin Preuschoff, Ernst Fehr) |
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| 10/02/08 | The developing brain from the lens of social neuroscience (Nikolaus Steinbeis, Tania Singer) |
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| 10/16/08 | Methods for measuring brain connectivity: Past, present, and future (Klaas Enno Stephan) |
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| 10/23/08 | The behavioral economics and neural circuitry of in-group favoritism (Holger Herz, Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr) |
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| 10/30/08 | Psychoneuroendocrinology of social behavior (Markus Heinrichs) |
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| 11/06/08 | Training the brain with biofeedback (Susanne Leiberg, Tania Singer) |
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| 11/13/08 | Human neuroimaging: Current methodological challenges for neuroeconomics (Lars Kasper, Klaas Enno Stephan) |
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| 11/20/08 | Psychoneuroendocrinology of social stress (Bernadette von Dawans, Markus Heinrichs) |
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| 11/27/08 | New perspectives on models of decision-making (Kay Brodersen, Klaas Enno Stephan) |
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| 12/04/08 | Clinical perspectives from psychoneuroendocrinology (Gregor Domes, Markus Heinrichs) |
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| 12/11/08 | The neuroeconomics and social neuroscience of self-regulation (Daria Knoch, Ernst Fehr) |
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| 12/18/08 | Measuring plasticity with MRI in humans (Claus Lamm, Giorgia Silani, Tania Singer) |
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| 01/08/09 | Final examination (8:00-9:45 am, KOL-G-204) |