From Cognitive to Educational Neuroscience

From Cognitive Science to Cognitive Neuroscience to Neuroeconomics

As an emerging discipline, neuroeconomics faces considerable methodological and practical challenges. In this paper, I suggest that these challenges can be understood by exploring the similarities and dissimilarities between the emergence of neuroeconomics and the emergence of cognitive and computational neuroscience two decades ago. From these parallels, I suggest the major challenge facing th...

Contextual Emergence from Physics to Cognitive Neuroscience

The concept of contextual emergence has been proposed as a non-reductive, yet well-defined relation between different levels of description of physical and other systems. It is illustrated for the transition from statistical mechanics to thermodynamical properties such as temperature. Stability conditions are shown to be crucial for a rigorous implementation of contingent contexts that are requ...

An Educational Psychologist ' s Perspective on Cognitive Neuroscience

Byrnes and Fox present a thoughtful article on a neglected but important topic for educational psychologists. Some major contributions are their emphasis on the need for consistency in educational theory and neuroscience research, the lack of automatic correspondence between neuroscience research and educational applications, the need for educator awareness of neuroscience research, the importa...

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Cognition

Developing developmental cognitive neuroscience: From agenda setting to hypothesis testing

In this issue of Developmental cognitive neuroscience Shulman nd colleagues (n.d.) and Nelson and colleagues (n.d.) present wo heuristic models of cognitive development. Shulman and coleagues review the current evidence in favor of dual systems (DS) odels, which suggests that enhanced risk taking in adolescents s the consequence of an imbalance between an early maturing otivational system invol...