Cognitive Neuroscience: Acting on Numbers

Cognitive Neuroscience: Acting on Numbers

The parietal cortex is a central part of the brain's system for representing numbers and magnitudes. Activity in the parietal cortex might reflect number representation or actions made in response to the numbers.

Perspectives on cognitive neuroscience.

How is it that we can perceive, learn and be aware of the world? The development of new techniques for studying large-scale brain activity, together with insights from computational modeling and a better understanding of cognitive processes, have opened the door for collaborative research that could lead to major advances in our understanding of ourselves.

On cognitive neuroscience.

Abstract Stephen M. Kosslyn is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and an Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974, both in psychology, and taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Brandeis Universities before joining the Harvard Faculty as Professor o...

Cognitive neuroscience.

Cognitive Neuroscience

. . . Advances [in cognitive neuroscience] have breathed new life into very old arguments about human agency, moral responsibility, and the proper ends of criminal punishment. A prominent group of cognitive neuroscientists, joined by sympathetic philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists, have drawn upon the tools of their discipline in an effort to embarrass, discredit, and ultimately overth...