About UsThe CSN was started in 2004 as a joint venture of GMU's School of Law, the Department of Economics, the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, the Mercatus Center and the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. The center works closely with its prime private partner, the International Foundation for Reserach in Experimental Economics (IFREE). The center consolidates a number of research programs that are currently in progress.
The mission of the CSN is to develop, and use, experimental methods from both, experimental economics and the cognitive neurosciences, to design experiments that help us to better understand how neural activity results in an emergent cognitive capacity for economic behavior.
In supporting this mission the center runs the sixteen subject BeNeuro Laboratory at the Krasnow Institute and plans to have a MR scanner, for fMRI experiments, in the expanded Krasnow facility. |