Current topics in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience was born in the 1990’s amid a technological explosion that produced powerful new methods for noninvasively studying the human brain, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). These exciting new technologies revolutionized the scientific study of the mind, giving unprecedented observability into the neural processes...

Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience

Current directions in social cognitive neuroscience.

Social cognitive neuroscience is an emerging discipline that seeks to explain the psychological and neural bases of socioemotional experience and behavior. Although research in some areas is already well developed (e.g. perception of nonverbal social cues) investigation in other areas has only just begun (e.g. social interaction). Current studies are elucidating; the role of the amygdala in a v...

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of the Visual System

Should psychologists care about functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)? Within the field of visual perception, the answer to this question is an emphatic ‘‘yes.’’ There is a long history of close interactions between psychology and neuroscience in the study of vision. In the 1980s, vision researchers developed a general framework for combining the two fields, and that framework still supp...

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Its Applications