Is neuroeconomics doomed by the reverse inference fallacy?

Mind and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-249

  Bourgeois Gironde, Sacha ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive ontologies; Cultural neural recycling; Neuroeconomics; Reductionism; Reverese inference fallacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956594757     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-010-0076-z     Document Type: Article

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