报告题目:Intelligence, Situation Awareness, and Context Sensitive Choice

讲座时间:2026年4月27日(周一)上午10:30-12:00

讲座地点: 经管学院节约楼209

摘要：Intelligence refers to the ability to perceive situations in general, acting appropriately and choosing among perceived options, towards accomplishing goals (Chew and Ebstein, 2025).In The Principles of Psychology, William James (1890) describes consciousness as a “stream”, a continuous, dynamic process that facilitates the perception of the environment. In Why Consciousness, Robert Aumann (2024) argues that consciousness evolved to enable the experience of incentive, underpinning goal seeking behavior such as preference maximization implicit in economic decision making. Aumann leaves open the question of "How", which we address by relying on brain plasticity at the synaptic level. We hypothesize that the experience of incentive emerges from the modulation of synaptic plasticity respectively by the gain- and loss-oriented neurochemicals of dopamine and serotonin. We further associate the attention function in Attention Weighted Utility (AWU – Chew, 1983; Chew, Wang, Zhong, 2025) with the pair of neurochemicals – acetylcholine and norepinephrine – modulating top-down attention and bottom-up salience respectively. This delivers a neurobiological foundation for AWU, which is being applied to model context sensitive choice situation arising from changing as well as increasing awareness (Karni, Viero, 2013).

报告人简介:

周恕弘（Chew Soo Hong）教授是国际知名经济学家，在决策理论、风险与不确定性条件下的选择理论、非期望效用公理化模型、行为经济学与实验经济学等领域作出了奠基性贡献。其早期研究发表于 Econometrica，此后持续在相关领域发表具有重要影响力的学术成果，奠定了其在风险决策与不确定性选择研究中的国际学术地位。

周教授现任西南财经大学智慧经济科学研究中心主任、首席教授，同时为计量经济学会院士（Fellow of the Econometric Society）和经济学理论促进学会院士（Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, SAET）。他曾获 Leonard J. Savage Award、Decision Sciences Institute 最佳研究论文奖，并于2022年获四川省政府“天府友谊奖”，以表彰其在国际交流合作中的突出贡献。

周教授长期致力于理论经济学、行为与实验经济学前沿研究，曾任教于美国亚利桑那大学、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学、加州大学欧文分校、香港科技大学等高校，并在多个国际知名期刊发表论文，如国际顶尖的top five 中的Econometrica（4篇），Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, 以及国际顶尖的Journal of European Economic Association, International Economic Review（2篇）, Journal of Economic Theory（13篇）, Management Science等发表诸多论文；他同时也在有关生物学的重要学刊发表了许多论文, 如Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Neuron, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Behavioral and Brain Sciences以及Neuroimage等。

近年来，他进一步将研究拓展至智慧经济学、神经经济学以及经济行为的遗传与生物基础等交叉领域，依托大规模行为实验室和跨学科实验研究，不断推动经济学与认知科学、生命科学的融合发展。