Cognitve Neuroscience

Question 1

What is cognitive neuroscience

Answer 1

The scientific study of the influence of brain structures (neuro) and mental processes (cognitive)

Question 2

What advances do psychologists have

Answer 2

Advances in brain scanning techniques in last 20 years and have been able to describe neurological basis of mental processes

Question 3

Why are scanning techniques useful

Answer 3

For establishing neurological basis of some disorders
E.g. grey matter found in parahippocampal which playing important role in memory encoding and retrieval
This provides support

Question 4

Also includes research into …

Answer 4

Memory that has linked to semantic and episodic sides of pre frontal fortex in the brain by use of PET scans (tulving et a)
Provides research to identify neurological basis of mental processes