A neuroeconomic study of congnitive process in asymmetric coordination games

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590048
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic theory
• Research Institution: Future University-Hakodate
• Principal Investigator: KAWAGOE Toshiji 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (80272277)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SATO Naoyuki 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (70312668) ; TAKIZAWA Hirokazu 中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80297720)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ゲーム理論 / 実験経済学 / コーディネーション / 神経経済学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, the cognitive process of equilibrium selection in Shelling's coordination game was investigated. For this purpose, we used an eye-tracking system for analyzing the cognitive process in forming a focal point. Our first experiment was conducted in the situation where only one subject used an eye-tracking system at a time, then a group of three was formed and the result of the game was determined. But as only one-shot play was possible in this situation, only a few coordination was achieved. Then, in a repeated interactions in our second experiment, subject's coordinating behavior toward equilibrium was observed and such a behavior was well organized a version of reinforcement learning. Finally, we incorporated those findings into our eye-tracking system. In this system, one human player plays with two computerized agents who follow reinforcement learning.

Free Research Field

実験経済学