A Practical Guide To Brain Data Analysis

Download or read book A Practical Guide To Brain Data Analysis written by Joao Paulo Vieito and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was developed to help students and researchers in the fields of economics, finance, law and other social science areas to understand and apply neuroscience. With the use of neuroscience technologies, it is now possible to understand how people make decisions in practice, using friendly and ecological experimental setups. The first half of the book studies the decision-making process and explains how the brain is organized. It presents the brain as a distributed processing system, shows how to record brain activities, and how to combine neurosciences and statistical tools to design experiments. In the last chapters, experiments on stock market decision, dilemma judgment, vote decision and understanding of media propaganda are described and discussed.