Translating upwards: Linking the neural and social sciences via neuroeconomics

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 789-797

  Levallois, Clement ^a   Clithero, John A ^b   Wouters, Paul ^c   Smidts, Ale ^d   Huettel, Scott A ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NEUROSCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84867743251     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3354     Document Type: Review

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