neuroscience

(noun)

The scientific study of the nervous system. This field looks for links between behavior and physical structures in the brain.

Related Terms

Examples of neuroscience in the following topics:

  • Biopsychology

    • The fields of behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology are all subfields of biological psychology.
    • Behavioral neuroscience has a strong history of contributing to the understanding of medical disorders, including those that fall into the realm of clinical psychology.
    • The emergence of both psychology and behavioral neuroscience as legitimate sciences can be traced to the emergence of physiology during the 18th and 19th centuries; however, it was not until 1914 that the term "psychobiology" was first used in its modern sense by Knight Dunlap in An Outline of Psychobiology.

  • Genetic Basis of Intelligence and Learning

    • Educational neuroscience, or neuroeducation, seeks to link an understanding of genetics and brain processes with how people learn, for the purpose of informing classroom instruction and experiences.
    • Educational neuroscience seeks to link an understanding of genetics and brain processes with how people learn for the purpose of informing classroom instruction and experience.

  • Careers in Psychology

    • For instance, physiological psychology uses animal models to study the neural, genetic, and cellular mechanisms that underlie specific behaviors; cognitive neuroscience investigates the neural correlates of human psychological processes using neural-imaging tools; and neuropsychology uses psychological assessments to determine the extent of cognitive deficits caused by brain damage or disease.

  • History of Cognition

    • These processes can be analyzed through the lenses of many different fields: linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, education, philosophy, biology, computer science, and of course, psychology, to name a few.

  • Sensory Absolute Thresholds

    • In neuroscience and psychophysics, there are several types of sensory threshold.

  • Studying the Brain

    • Neuroscience is a relatively new field, but the more research that is done, the more it appears that much of human behavior and mental processes—the key interests for psychological study—are intimately intertwined with activity in the brain.

  • Attention

    • It is a major area of investigation within education, psychology, and neuroscience.

  • Social Cognition

  • Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

    • Research into the causes of social anxiety and social phobia is wide-ranging, encompassing multiple perspectives from neuroscience to sociology.

  • Conscious vs. Unconscious Emotion

    • Modern neuroscience has taken a more serviceable approach to the field of emotions.