Universität Wien

200022 PS Proseminar zu biologischen Grundlagen des Erlebens und Verhaltens (2019W)

Decision Neuroscience

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

This course will be taught in English!

  • Mittwoch 09.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 16.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 23.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 30.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 06.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 13.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 20.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 27.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 04.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 11.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Dienstag 07.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 08.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 22.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624
  • Mittwoch 29.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Psychologie, NIG 6.Stock A0624

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

[AIMS]
Decision neuroscience (aka, neuroeconomics) is one of the most interdisciplinary and fast-moving fields, as it combines psychology, economics, and neuroscience to gain insights into how the brain computes value and makes decisions in different contexts.

To this end, it is important to lay the foundation of main concepts and insights of decision neuroscience, so that students are able to deepen their knowledge and understanding in later stages.

[CONTENT]
This course is dedicated to introducing students the key findings in decision neuroscience as well as major research methods used in decision neuroscience. Throughout the course, we will also cover basic research skills and good scientific practice.

[METHODS]
Oral presentations by lecturer and students, in-class participation, group presentations.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular participation: 20%
Individual paper presentation: 20%
Group Debate: 15%
Group presentation: 25%
Group paper: 20%

>87% 1; >75% 2; >63% 3; >51% 4; <=50% 5

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

- Comfortable with understanding and presenting scientific content in English
- Basic knowledge about statistics (e.g., t-test, regression)

Prüfungsstoff

- Able to provide a basic understanding of various topics in decision neuroscience
- Able to read journal publication and able to search for literature
- Able to tell the pros and cons of common neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI, TMS, etc.)
- Able to appreciate the necessity of the open science practice
- Able to formulate valid research questions and design simple experiments

Literatur

[Journal articles]
- Ruff, C. C., & Fehr, E. (2014). The neurobiology of rewards and values in social decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15(8), 549.
- Rangel, A., Camerer, C., & Montague, P. R. (2008). A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making. Nature reviews neuroscience, 9(7), 545.

[Books]
- Glimcher, P. W., & Fehr, E. (Eds.). (2013). Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain. Academic Press.
- Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Macmillan.

[Extended reading]
- Zhang, L., Lengersdorff, L., Mikus, N., Gläscher, J., & Lamm, C. (2020). Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(6), 695-707.
- Ahn, W. Y., Haines, N., & Zhang, L. (2017). Revealing neurocomputational mechanisms of reinforcement learning and decision-making with the hBayesDM package. Computational Psychiatry, 1, 24-57.
- Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., ... & Avesani, P. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 1-7.
- Hu, Y., He, L., Zhang, L., Wölk, T., Dreher, J. C., & Weber, B. (2018). Spreading inequality: neural computations underlying paying-it-forward reciprocity. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 13(6), 578-589.
- Zhang, L., & Gläscher, J. (2020). A brain network supporting social influences in human decision-making. Science advances, 6(34), eabb4159.
- Crawley, D., Zhang, L., Jones, E. J., Ahmad, J., Oakley, B., San José Cáceres, A., ... & EU-AIMS LEAP group. (2020). Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group. PLoS biology, 18(10), e3000908.
- Zhang, L., Redžepović, S., Rose, M., & Gläscher, J. (2018). Zen and the Art of Making a Bayesian Espresso. Neuron, 98(6), 1066-1068.
- Bayer, J., Rusch, T., Zhang, L., Gläscher, J., & Sommer, T. (2020). Dose-dependent effects of estrogen on prediction error related neural activity in the nucleus accumbens of healthy young women. Psychopharmacology, 237(3), 745-755.
- Kreis, I., Zhang, L., Moritz, S., & Pfuhl, G. (2020). Spared performance but increased uncertainty in schizophrenia: evidence from a probabilistic decision-making task.
- Schmalz, X., Manresa, J. B., & Zhang, L. (2020). What is a Bayes Factor?.
- Kreis, I., Zhang, L., Mittner, M., Syla, L., Lamm, C., & Pfuhl, G. (2020). Aberrant uncertainty processing is linked to psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits and reflected in pupil dilation.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Letzte Änderung: Fr 15.01.2021 00:19