Graduate StudyThe Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics uses experimental methods to study the behavior of cash motivated human subjects as they participate in social, economic, legal, and political institutions. In addition, experiments are run in our state of the art brain imaging facility to understand the neurological computations that are made to produce the observed behavior. Graduate students who work at the CSN have performed well in all of the following undergraduate areas. (1) Experimental methods in some scientific discipline (preferably with human subjects in experimental economics, cognitive psychology, or cognitive neuroscience). (2) Mathematics, Statistics (preferably with some math modeling background). (3) Programming (preferably Java). (4) Economics (preferably up to and including indermediate microeconomics, math econ., and econometrics. (5) English (preferably with advanced composition.) |