UT Dallas 2026 Graduate Catalog

ACN6386 - Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics

ACN 6386 (HCS 6386 and PSYC 6386) Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics (3 semester credit hours) Survey of the emerging, interdisciplinary fields of decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics. Topics include reward and valuation, ambiguity and uncertainty, discounting and cost-benefit integration, evidence accumulation and reinforcement learning, game theory and strategic interactions, and neuromarketing and behavior change. Prerequisites: (ACN 6338 or HCS 6338 or PSYC 6338) and instructor consent required. (3-0) T