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--- abstract: "According to theories of cultural neuroscience, Westerners and Easterners may have distinct styles of cognition (e.g., different allocation of attention). Previous research has shown that Westerners and Easterners tend to utilize analytical and holistic cognitive styles, respectively. On the other hand, little is known regarding the cultural differences in neuroeconomic behavior. For instance, economic decisions may be affected by cultural differences in neurocomputational processing underlying attention; however, this area of neuroeconomics has been largely understudied. In the present paper, we attempt to bridge this gap by considering the links between the theory of cultural neuroscience and neuroeconomic theory\r\nof the role of attention in intertemporal choice. We predict that (i) Westerners are more impulsive and inconsistent in intertemporal choice in comparison to Easterners, and (ii) Westerners more steeply discount delayed monetary losses than Easterners. We examine these predictions by utilizing a novel temporal discounting model based on Tsallis' statistics (i.e. a q-exponential model). Our preliminary analysis of temporal discounting of gains and losses by Americans and Japanese confirmed the predictions from the cultural neuroeconomic theory. Future study directions, employing computational modeling via neural networks, are briefly outlined and discussed." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Takahashi given: Taiki honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Hadzibeganovic given: Tarik honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Cannas given: Sergio honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Makino given: Takaki honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Fukui given: Hiroki honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Kitayama given: Shinobu honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008 date_type: submitted datestamp: 2008-08-06 16:51:42 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/61/58 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6158 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6158/1/Takahashi_et_al_cogprints.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "Cultural neuroscience, neuroeconomics, intertemporal choice, attention allocation, Tsallis' statistics, neural networks." lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:10 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 27 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2008-08-06 16:51:42 subjects: - cog-psy - behav-neuro-sci - psy-phys succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Cultural Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal Choice type: preprint userid: 7522 volume: ~