Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, VGEC Campus, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, India.
Prog Brain Res. 2013;202:239-66. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-62604-2.00014-9.
The neuroscience of decision making is a rapidly evolving multidisciplinary research area that employs neuroscientific techniques to explain various parameters associated with decision making behavior. In this chapter, we emphasize the role of multiple disciplines such as psychology, economics, neuroscience, and computational approaches in understanding the phenomenon of decision making. Further, we present a theoretical approach that suggests understanding the building blocks of decision making as bottom-up processes and integrate these with top-down modulatory factors. Relevant neurophysiological and neuroimaging findings that have used the building-block approach are reviewed. A unifying framework emphasizing multidisciplinary views would bring further insights into the active research area of decision making. Pointing to future directions for research, we focus on the role of computational approaches in such a unifying framework.
决策的神经科学是一个快速发展的多学科研究领域，它采用神经科学技术来解释与决策行为相关的各种参数。在本章中，我们强调了心理学、经济学、神经科学和计算方法等多个学科在理解决策现象中的作用。此外，我们提出了一种理论方法，该方法表明，将决策的组成部分理解为自下而上的过程，并将这些过程与自上而下的调节因素相结合。综述了使用这种积木方法的相关神经生理学和神经影像学发现。强调多学科观点的统一框架将为决策这一活跃的研究领域带来更多的见解。在指出未来的研究方向时，我们专注于计算方法在这种统一框架中的作用。
