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This serves as a great collection of references, but the post itself has too much opaque jargon to be a helpful explanation.
Really? I didn't notice it was jargon-y at all...and I have zero background in economics.
In a post referencing a paper claiming "...orbitofrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area are necessary ..." in the title, I somehow doubt that the complaint was about economic jargon. But then I do have a background in economics.
I suppose that I do have some background in neuroscience (at least the basics covered in our mandatory Anatomy and Physiology courses). I don't know per se what the ventral tegmental area does, but I know it's a part of the brain and, well, I'm relying on the post/article to tell me what it does if that is relevant to the point.
Right. You don't need to know what the VTA does or even where it is to get the point that we have these functions mapped to very clusters of neurons.
Looking back, I see that my post assumes a fair bit of familiarity with microeconomics. I don't have the space to give an economics lesson in this post, but I've noted this dependency in a parenthetical paragraph in the original post now, thanks.
As someone with a casual background in micro-economics, I find it entirely readable. I also really appreciated the warning that I might need that background.