Center for Economics and Neuroscience
| Center for Economics and Neuroscience | |
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 Center for Economics and Neuroscience |
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| Category: | Neuroeconomics |
| Facility location: | University of Bonn |
| Management: | Bernd Weber |
| Homepage: | www.cens.uni-bonn.de/ |
Center for Economics and Neuroscience - Center for Economics and Neuroscience (CENs) is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Bonn .
history
It was founded in 2009 by Zülch Prize Winner Christian E. Elger , Leibniz Prize Winner Armin Falk , Martin Reuter and Heisenberg Professor Bernd Weber (from 2020 Dean of the Medical Faculty Bonn ), who set themselves the goal of creating a platform for the field of neuroeconomics within Germany and also to offer internationally and to promote interdisciplinary work.
The CEN combines the knowledge and methods of neuroscience , behavioral genetics , psychology and empirical economic research to expand the understanding of human behavior, especially in economically relevant contexts.
Researches
The CENs is a central scientific facility of the University of Bonn and has access to the scientific facilities of the contributing institutes, the use of which can be combined as required.
This includes the laboratory for experimental economic research for carrying out computer-aided behavioral experiments with up to 24 test subjects simultaneously, two magnetic resonance tomographs for interacting behavioral experiments with functional imaging, and a biomolecular laboratory for genotyping various polymorphisms.