Armin Falk and Bernd Weber

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Neuroeconomics Part II Methods - II

• Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
• Universität Bonn, SS 08

www.neuroeconomics-bonn.org
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Functional Neuroanatomy
Functional Neuroanatomy (systems of the nervous
system) - Somatosensory System - Motor
System - Visual System - Language System -
Memory System - Pain - Limbic System - Reward
System
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Basic functional anatomy

• - Primary sensory areas
• Theory of Mind
• Working Memory
• spatial orientation

• - Decision Making
• - Motor planning
• Higher Cognition
• Moral judgment

• - Primary visual System
• Form- und
• Motionrecognition

• - Long Term Memory
• Language
• Object recognition

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Division into primary and association areas
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Topographic representation the homunculus
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Movement
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System for motor control
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Descending fibre-system crossing in the brain stem
The primary motor system pyramidal tract
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Somatotopic organization of motor representation
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From simple to complex movements motor
programs in the premotor cortex
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The basal ganglia extrapyramidal motor system
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The basal ganglia

• Striatum (Caudate and Putamen)
• Pallidum
• Substantia Nigra
• Subthalamic Nucleus

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Circuit of the thalamo-cortico-basal ganglia
system in motor control
Substantia nigra Putamen Pallidum Subthalami
c Nucleus
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Misfunction in Parkinsons Disease
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Visual system
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Visual system
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Optical illusions - Contours
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Optical illusions - Contours
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Optical illusions - Perspectives
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Optical illusions
Müller Lyer - Illusion
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Complex processing in the retina
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Photoreceptors in the retina
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Neural system of the retina Color Vision
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Neural system of the retina
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The receptive fields of gangion cells
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Principle of lateral inhibition
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Two pathways what and where
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Two pathways what and where
Zeki et al., 1991
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Specific Areas of the visual pathway Face
Perception