Knowra Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience studies how brain activity supports mental processes, combining methods from neuroscience and cognitive science to connect neural systems with thought and behavior.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging : A brain-imaging method that estimates neural activity from changes in blood oxygenation. It maps which brain regions change activity during particular mental tasks.
Cognitive psychology : The study of mental processes such as attention, memory, language, and reasoning. It supplies the task models and mental functions that neural research seeks to explain.
Cognitive neuropsychology : The study of how brain damage affects cognitive abilities and mental architecture. It uses selective impairments to infer how cognitive systems are organized in the brain.
Cognitive science : An interdisciplinary study of the mind drawing on psychology, computation, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience is one branch of this broader study of the mind.
Reverse inference : The inference from activity in a brain region to the mental process producing it. A region associated with a task may support several processes, limiting what activation alone proves.
Electroencephalography : A method that records electrical activity from the scalp using electrodes. Its millisecond timing helps link brain signals to stages of mental processing.
Neural circuit : A group of interconnected neurons whose activity contributes to a function or behavior. Circuits provide a scale between individual neurons and whole-brain systems.
Memory : The processes by which information is encoded, retained, and retrieved. Memory research connects distinct kinds of remembering with different neural systems.
Systems neuroscience : The study of how neural circuits and brain systems produce behavior and perception. It often centers neural systems, while cognitive neuroscience foregrounds mental processes.
Neural correlates of consciousness : The minimal neural conditions that correspond to a particular conscious experience. Identifying neural correlates does not by itself explain why experience is conscious.
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