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DPRE(Dophamine Reward Prediction Error) hypotesis에 관해 읽고 있다. 이를 통해

1. Dopamine and the construction of utility: According to the DRPE hypothesis, dopamine contains information on “reward,” which in turn acts as an input into choice. As such, we can see dopamine as a key input into the construction of “utility,” or a building block in determining the choices people make.

2. Dopamine as a carrier of information on expectations: The DRPE hypothesis states that dopamine responds to the difference between experienced and anticipated rewards. As such, it should be possible to use observation of dopamine to back out a measure of what was expected in different circumstances, allowing a new window into decision-making under uncertainty

3. Dopamine as a building block for learning: The importance of learning theory in economics is apparent from the effort that has been dedicated to it both within macroeconomic theory (e.g., Marcet and Sargent [1989] and Evans and Honkapohia [2001]) and within microeconomic theory (e.g., Fudenberg and Levine [1998]). The DPRE hypothesis suggests that dopamine forms one of the building blocks of learning within the brain. Understanding the DRPE can therefore be thought of as the first step in developing a “neuroeconomic theory of learning.”

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