neuroscience

(noun)

The scientific study of the nervous system. This field looks for links between behavior and physical structures in the brain.

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Examples of neuroscience in the following topics:

  • Biopsychology

    • The fields of behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology are all subfields of biological psychology.
    • Behavioral neuroscience has a strong history of contributing to the understanding of medical disorders, including those that fall into the realm of clinical psychology.
    • The emergence of both psychology and behavioral neuroscience as legitimate sciences can be traced to the emergence of physiology during the 18th and 19th centuries; however, it was not until 1914 that the term "psychobiology" was first used in its modern sense by Knight Dunlap in An Outline of Psychobiology.

  • Wertsch - Biography

    • He holds joint appointments in Education, the Russian Studies Program, and the Program in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology, all in the Department of Arts & Sciences.

  • Genetic Basis of Intelligence and Learning

    • Educational neuroscience, or neuroeducation, seeks to link an understanding of genetics and brain processes with how people learn, for the purpose of informing classroom instruction and experiences.
    • Educational neuroscience seeks to link an understanding of genetics and brain processes with how people learn for the purpose of informing classroom instruction and experience.

  • Centralization

    • In neuroscience, centralization refers to the evolutionary trend of the nervous system to be partitioned into a central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

  • Careers in Psychology

    • For instance, physiological psychology uses animal models to study the neural, genetic, and cellular mechanisms that underlie specific behaviors; cognitive neuroscience investigates the neural correlates of human psychological processes using neural-imaging tools; and neuropsychology uses psychological assessments to determine the extent of cognitive deficits caused by brain damage or disease.

  • The Behavioral-Science Approach

    • Behavioral science draws from a number of different fields and theories, primarily those of psychology, social neuroscience, and cognitive science.

  • Branches and Subdisciplines of Biology

    • Another field of biological study, neurobiology, is the study of the nervous system, and although it is considered a branch of biology, it is also recognized as an interdisciplinary field of study known as neuroscience.

  • History of Cognition

    • These processes can be analyzed through the lenses of many different fields: linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, education, philosophy, biology, computer science, and of course, psychology, to name a few.

  • Studying the Brain

    • Neuroscience is a relatively new field, but the more research that is done, the more it appears that much of human behavior and mental processes—the key interests for psychological study—are intimately intertwined with activity in the brain.

  • Sensory Absolute Thresholds

    • In neuroscience and psychophysics, there are several types of sensory threshold.