Scientists develop novel use of neurotechnology to solve classic social problem
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 13:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Economists and neuroscientists from the California Institute of Technology have shown that they can use information obtained through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements of whole-brain activity to create feasible, efficient, and fair solutions to one of the stickiest dilemmas in economics, the public goods free-rider problem -- long thought to be unsolvable.