Cognitive Neuroscience

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Cognitive Neuroscience

• What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
• How does it differ from both cognitive psychology
  and neuroscience?

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Cognitive Psychology

• Fundamentally the study of how the mind processes
  information (not the brain!)
• The Symbol System Hypothesis
• Information Processing Theory

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Neural plausibility

• If a cognitive process cannot be implemented by
  neurons, it cannot take place in the brain.
• How do we establish whether a process can be
  implemented by neurons?

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Two Goals

• Localization of function - At the macro level,
  Cognitive Neuroscience tries to examine where in
  the brain various cognitive operations take
  place.
• Neural computation - At the micro level, we try
  to understand how the brain performs various
  operations.