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Neuroscience Techniques in Economic Experiments

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Cognitive neuroscience is a new and rapidly developing field of research that brings together many different scientific domains. Although it emerged as a discipline only over the last two to three decades, it is widely used in many different applications. This chapter is intended to present briefly the concepts of cognitive neuroscience and to show how they are used in economics—especially when designing and performing experiments. It is done in the form of a synthetic review of the main trends in cognitive neuroscience tool applications in contemporary research publications. On the basis of this overview conclusions concerning possible future applications and trends are presented.

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  1. Department of Computational Methods in Experimental Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Institute of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 64, 71–101, Szczecin, Poland

    Anna Borawska

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  1. Institute of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Mierzyn, Poland

    Kesra Nermend

  2. Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Małgorzata Łatuszyńska

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Borawska, A. (2016). Neuroscience Techniques in Economic Experiments. In: Nermend, K., Łatuszyńska, M. (eds) Selected Issues in Experimental Economics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28419-4_9

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