Here are some interesting links:
NeuroEconomics and NeuroFinance
Organizations The Society For Neuroeconomics
The society for neuroeconomics promotes the research and dissemination of knowledge in neuroeconomics. The society was incorporated in 2005 after meeting informally at workshops and other meetings over the last five years. The society promotes the dissemination and development of knowledge in neuroeconomics, by organizing annual conferences and a summer school.
Some important research centres
Neuroeconomics is a recent field. Many centers are not labelled as "neuroeconomics" - or neurofinance - centers, still they definitively belong to the field. The goal here is to help localize some of those remarkable centres. I do not pretend to provide a comprehensive list.
Neuroeconomics
Glimcher Lab at New York University
Paul Glimcher's centre for neural science, aimed at studying the physiological basis of mind.
The Neuroscientific Foundations of Social Behavior and Altruism, at the University of Zurich
Directed by Ernst Fehr and Tania Singer, examines the neuronal basis of prosocial behavior, using approaches from experimental economics and social neuroscience. One prominent feature of this research program is the use of a multitude of state-of-the-art techniques and resources including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), autonomic measures, neuroendocrinological and pharmacological approaches, and clinical studies.
The Affective Neuroscience and Biopsychology Lab, University of Michigan Psychology Department
Kent Berridge's Lab has been producing fascinating research about the neural mechanisms of emotion, the learning of rewards, and motivation; in particular investigates the neural basis of pleasure, "liking", and "wanting".
The Stanford neuroeconomics lab
This lab has been in the recent past one of the pioneer lab in the study of the neural basis of economic decision-making using fMRI, eye-tracking, and psychophysiology; directed by Antonio Rangel; has also prominent young neuroeconomists as collaborators, such as Brian Knutson, and close connections with the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at Caltech (Colin Camerer and Peter Bossaerts are collaborators, Antonio is currently at Caltech).
The Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior at Princeton University
Jonathan D. Cohen is one of its prominent members.
Research Team Neuroeconomics, at the University of Muenster
Directed by Peter Kenning, the research team was a pioneer in neuroeconomics research, in particular with an early work performed by Hilke Plassman (now at Caltech) and Peter Kenning on the brand phenomenon.
Computational Neuroeconomics
The Gatsby Unit at UCL
The unit is specialized in computational neuroscience. Among its poles of excellence are the understanding of intelligent learning systems using bayesian statistics, and reinforcement learning. Peter Dayan is one of its members.
Nathaniel Daw, now at New York University, was a postdoctoral fellow with Peter Dayan at the Gatsby Unit.
The Department of computational neurobiology of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), located in Kyoto
The department does theoretical modeling of brain functions and experimental studies using robots, psychophysical measurement, and brain imaging. Kenji Doya, one of its members, is one of the best experts in reinforcement learning, and the pioneer of a cutting edge research programme on métalearning.
Neurofinance
The Laboratory for Neuro-Finance, at Caltech The Laboratory for Neuro-Finance of Peter Bossaerts, Kervin Preuschoff, and Tony Bruguier, at Caltech, is pionering a fascinating research in neuro-finance; in particular they examine the way financial risk is encoded in the brain, investigate whether our brains are bayesian, and ask whether participants of modern financial markets use ToM to interpret the market signals.
Actually it's an extension of the Caltech Laboratory For Experimental Finance (CLEF), whose mission is to test the predictions of asset pricing theory, by designing lab financial markets that emulate competitive markets, and then studing their workings. In these artificial competitive markets, real people trade for real money.
Techniques for anlysing neuroimaging data
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL
Well-known for being a top interdisciplinary centre for neuroimaging excellence, and for being the home to SPM, probably the most popular tool for analysing neuroimaging data.
Psychological trading
Brett N. Steenbarger
Brett N.Steenbarger 's numerous articles on trading psychology can be found here.
Market Psychology Consulting
Richard Peterson's consulting firm, sells coaching expertise and behavioral finance and investment psychology workshops to business professionals, so that the latter improve their financial decision making through increased self-awareness and knowledge of the environment.They have a special page aimed at branding neurofinance :-)
JasonZweig.comThe great site of the famous columnist of "Money Magazine", full of analyses about real investing behaviors.
Computational agent-based finance
Santa Fe Institute
Creates a multi-disciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems.
See in particular, here, the "Financial Markets as an Empirical Laboratory" and the "Agent-based Modeling in the Social Sciences" research units.
The Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents, University of Essex
An interdisciplinary and laboratory research centre which develop computational and evolutionary methods to simulate markets with artificially intelligent agents. One of its leaders is Sheri Markose.
