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The field of cognitive neuroscience concerns the study of the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and is a branch of biological psychology which, in turn, is part of the wider field of neuroscience, the most comprehensive interdisciplinary discipline studying the brain .

Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive psychology, and in fact has its roots largely in cognitive psychophysiology. But whereas cognitive psychologists seek to understand the mind, researchers in cognitive neuroscience are concerned with understanding how the mental processes take place in the brain. Cognitive neuroscientists tend to have a background in experimental psychology, cognitive psychophysiology, neurobiology, neurology, physics, and mathematics. The two areas influence each other on a continuous basis, since an understanding of mental structure can inform theories about brain functions and knowledge about neural mechanisms is useful in understanding mental structure.

Methods include psychophysical experiments, functional neuroimaging, neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience also makes contact with low-level data from electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, cognitive genomics. The main theoretical approaches are computational neuroscience and the more "abstract" information processing approaches, inherited from cognitive psychology, psychometrics (mathematical psychology) and neuropsychology.

Contents 1 Cognitive neuroscience topics 2 Related WikiBooks 3 References & Bibliography 4 See also

[edit] Cognitive neuroscience topics

• change blindness
• mirror neurons
• attention
• consciousness
• decision-making

[edit] Related WikiBooks

• Wikibook on consciousness
• Cognitive Neuroscience chapter of the Neuroscience WikiBook

[edit] References & Bibliography

• Gazzaniga, M. S., Ed. (1999). Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences.

• Code, C. (1996). Classic Cases: Ancient & Modern Milestones in the Development of Neuropsychological Science. In: Code, C. et al “Classic Cases in Neuropsychology”.

• Parkin, A.J. (1996). “Explorations in Cognitive Neuropsychology”, pp. 1-23.

• Churchland, P.S. & Sejnowski, T.J. (1992). “The Computational Brain”.

• Ward, J (2006). The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience.Psychological Press.ISBN: 1-84169-534-3 hbk ISBN: 1-84169-535-1 pbk

[edit] See also

• Important publications in cognitive neuroscience
• Affective neuroscience

Neuroscience subfields:	Edit
Cognitive neuroscience | Computational neuroscience | Neuroanatomy | Neurochemistry | Neuroimaging | Neurolinguistics | Neurology | Neuropsychology | Psychopharmacology | Systems neuroscience

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