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When economic theory meets the mind: Neuroeconomics as a new approach to psychopathology
No full textThe paper describes the current status of the new interdisciplinary research field of neuroeconomics in relation to psychopathology, giving an account of possible clinical implications for social dysfunction. This is achievable because neuroeconomics join economics, psychology, neuroscience and computational science in order to gain a greater understanding of people decision making. Recent research are using these tasks in association with neuroimaging in order to understand existing discrepancy between the theoretical models and experimental data and to gain more details on the ways people decide and judge within the social context. We report how neuroeconomics paradigms have been recently used to study social interaction in different mental disease conditions such as in borderline personality disorder, externalizing behavior problems, depression, social anxiety, psychopathy, autism and, more recently, psychosis. Furthermore the paper aims to point out a new set of tools from Economics Theory able to gather human interaction 'in vivo' in a computable way. The challenge of neuroeconomics may be to bring a broad set of tools letting new knowledge on neural computation of social interaction and, extensively, on mental diseases where the social impairment is a core feature. In conclusion the paper speculates that neuroeconomics is a potential bridge for translational research in psychopathology as it allows to get an objective evaluation of the interpersonal behaviors in a shifting social environment and to combine behavioral with neuroimaging measures, as tools to investigate relationship between neurobiology and behavior
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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