Cognitive Science - Trends
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

What multiple sclerosis could bring to cognitive neuroscience?

16 Jul 2009 The relevance of multiple sclerosis for cognitive neuroscience has evolved significantly during the last decades. After a relative and enduring disinterest, the 1980's has been marked by a first wave of studies aiming at characterizing the cognitive ... Read more...

The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science.

3 Feb 2009 Neuroscience was an integral part of psychosomatic medicine at its inception in the early 20th century. Since the mid-20th century, however, psychosomatic research has largely ignored the brain. The field of neuroscience has burgeoned in recent ... Read more...

Towards a science of magic.

3 Aug 2008 It is argued here that cognitive science currently neglects an important source of insight into the human mind: the effects created by magicians. Over the centuries, magicians have learned how to perform acts that are perceived as defying the laws ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Science - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• What multiple sclerosis could bring to cognitive neuroscience? 16 Jul 2009
• [We live our lives through change] 27 Feb 2009
• The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science. 3 Feb 2009
• Towards a science of magic. 3 Aug 2008
• Wild agency: nested intentionalities in cognitive neuroscience and archaeology. 10 Jun 2008
• The paranormal mind: how the study of anomalous experiences and beliefs may inform cognitive neuroscience. 3 Jun 2008
• Keeping the "cognitive" in cognitive neuroscience, the "affective" in affective neuroscience, and the "behavioral" in behavioral neuroscience: the CABN mission for the next five years. 28 Feb 2008
• Access to AAC: present, past, and future. 30 Aug 2007
• Preface to the special issue: computational cognitive neuroscience. 25 Jun 2007
• Distributed cognition: an alternative model of cognition for medical informatics. 4 Jun 2007
• Re-inventing ourselves: the plasticity of embodiment, sensing, and mind. 29 Apr 2007
• Interrelated and interdependent. 30 Dec 2006
• Progress in convergence: technologies for human wellbeing. Proceedings from a meeting, February 24-25, 2005, Hawaii. 29 Nov 2006
• Reality of rapid convergence. 29 Nov 2006
• Converging cognitive enhancements. 29 Nov 2006
• The paradigm of complexity in clinical neurocognitive science. 29 Sep 2006
• Preface special issue 'Advances in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience'. Jul 2006
• The cognitive neuroscience of remote episodic, semantic and spatial memory. 25 Mar 2006
• Generalist genes and cognitive neuroscience. 22 Mar 2006
• The multi-component model of working memory: explorations in experimental cognitive psychology. 4 Mar 2006

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Technical information about 'Cognitive Science'

Definition: The study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enable them to be performed, engaging branches of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D019336

Alternative terms: Cognitive Science; Cognitive Sciences; Science, Cognitive; Sciences, Cognitive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.628.255;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: a branch of psychol; SPEC; SPEC qualif