From Cognitive Science to Neuroscience to Neuroeconomics
I was having a hard time understanding the connection between neuroeconomics and emotion. But this article has made the connection more visible to me. Scientist being unable to probe reward processing, decision making, and social interaction are able to correlate results from neuroeconomics to these areas. In class we talked of having innate response factors built into our brain, like being able to deflect a ball thrown at our face. In the article it is brought up also, in that some of vision processing goes directly to the spinal cord so that we have a predator evasion reaction. This may be true in some more animalistic traits of survival. Another example could be a parent protecting their child by taking on a dangerous situation in the child's place, so the lineage of the family can continue. I wonder, are behavioral experiences fine tuning these innate responses in order to increase chance of survival? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry