Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain - Table of Contents

October 2004
6 x 9, 395 pp., 49 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-57227-3
ISBN-13:
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Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain
The Science of Neuroeconomics
Paul W. Glimcher

	Acknowledgments	xiii

	Further Reading	xv

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (36 KB)	xvii

I.	Historical Approaches	1

1.	René Descartes and the Birth of Neuroscience Sample Chapter - Download PDF (604 KB)	3

2.	Inventing the Reflex	33

3.	Charles Sherrington and the Propositional Logic of Reflexes	55

4.	Finding the Limits of the Sherringtonian Paradigm	77

5.	Neurobiology Today: Beyond Reflexology?	111

6.	Global Computation: An Alternative to Sherrington?	131

7.	Modularity and Evolution	145

II.	Neuroeconomics	169

8.	Defining the Goal: Extending Marr's Approach	171

9.	Evolution, Probability, and Economics	205

10.	Probability, Valuation, and Neural Circuits: A Case Study	225

11.	Irreducible Uncertainty and the Theory of Games	271

12.	Games and the Brain	299

13.	Putting It All Together I. Behavior and Physiology	319

14.	Putting It All Together II. Philosophical Implications	337

	References	347

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (90 KB)	355

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