The emergence of cognitive neuroscience

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Cognitive neurosciences a relatively new field that tries to bridge the gap between the cognitive and biological approaches.

This field has resulted from the development of techniques for scanning the living brain while it is actively processing information. Cognitive neuroscience uses non-invasive brain scanning techniques like PET scans and MRls to understand which parts of the brain are active while specific internal mental processes are being used.

Question 2

Techniques of cognitive neuroscience

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Cognitive neuroscience uses non-invasive brain scanning techniques like PET scans

and MRls to understand which parts of the brain are active while specific internal mental processes are being used.

Question 3

PET

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positron emission tomography

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MRIs

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magnetic resonance imaging

Question 5

why cognitive nueroscience is good (brain scans)

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For example, brain scans have highlighted the distinction between different types of long-term memory (LTM).

The hippocampus is associated with episodic memory, the temporal lobe is associated with semantic memory, and the cerebellum and motor cortex are associated with procedural memories.

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why cognitive nueroscience is good (brain imaging)

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Brain imaging techniques have also been successful in establishing a link to certain mental health disorders,

such as the association between obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and the parahippocampal gyrus.