NDLI: Neuroscience in Context: The New Flagship of the Cognitive Sciences

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Author	Christensen, Wayne D. Tommasi, Luca
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Cognitive neuroscience has come to be viewed as the flagship of the cognitive sciences and is transforming our understanding of the nature of mind. In this paper we survey several research fields in cognitive neuroscience (lateralization, neuroeconomics, and cognitive control) and note that they are making rapid progress on fundamental issues. Lateralization research is developing a comparative framework for evolutionary analysis, and is identifying individual- and population-level factors that favor brain asymmetries. Neuroeconomics is creating a research framework for studying valuation mechanisms in the brain that allows investigation of more complex phenomena than traditional reward paradigms. And cognitive control research has cast light on the mechanisms of task learning and top-down control that enable fluid goal-directed behavior in complex situations. Reasons for the success of cognitive neuroscience are varied: technical advances (e.g., in molecular genetics and imaging) are part of the story, but the more important factors have to do with the power of integrating a bottom-up mechanistic approach with larger functional and evolutionary perspectives. The incorporation of a bottom-up component differentiates cognitive neuroscience from the multidisciplinary ambitions of classical cognitive science, which suffered from having limited access to mechanisms.
Starting Page	78
Ending Page	83
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15555542
Journal	Biological Theory
Volume Number	1
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15555550
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-03-20
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of Biology cognitive control top-down control multidisciplinarity neuroeconomics evolution of cognition cognitive neuroscience Evolutionary Biology Cognitive Psychology laterality
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics History and Philosophy of Science

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