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Under the mind's hood: what we have learned by watching the brain at work
- Source :
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
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Abstract
- Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. Luckily, human ingenuity comes to the rescue.<br />Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. Luckily, human ingenuity comes to the rescue. Around the same time as the Society for Neuroscience was being established in the 1960s, the first tools for measuring the human brain at work were becoming available. Noninvasive human brain imaging and neurophysiology have continued developing at a relentless pace ever since. In this 50 year anniversary, we reflect on how these methods have been changing our understanding of how brain supports mind.
- Subjects :
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Neurophysiology
Neuroimaging
History, 21st Century
Machine Learning
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Ingenuity
Cognition
Mental Processes
Neuropsychology
Humans
Attention
Selective attention
Evoked Potentials
TechSights
030304 developmental biology
Pace
media_common
Cognitive science
0303 health sciences
Brain Mapping
General Neuroscience
Electroencephalograhy (EEG)
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Historical overview
Human brain imaging
Human neurophysiology
Work (electrical)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Forecasting
Psychophysiology
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eb574a9cbf937cfc2874539ee04a9d43