Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition,with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes. It addresses the questions of how cognitive activities are affected or controlled by neural circuits in the brain. Cognitive neuroscience is a branch of both neuroscience and psychology,overlapping with disciplines such as behavioral neuroscience,cognitive psychology,physiological psychology and affective neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience relies upon theories in cognitive science coupled with evidence from neurobiology,and computational modeling.
The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes,from which emerged a new field known as cognitive science. The preexisting relevant fields were psychology,linguistics,computer science,anthropology,neuroscience,and philosophy. The approaches used were developed within the then-nascent fields of artificial intelligence,computer science,and neuroscience. In the 1960s,the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies and the Center for Human Information Processing at the University of California,San Diego were influential in developing the academic study of cognitive science. By the early 1970s,the cognitive movement had surpassed behaviorism as a psychological paradigm. Furthermore,by the early 1980s the cognitive approach had become the dominant line of research inquiry across most branches in the field of psychology.
Music psychology,or the psychology of music,may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience,including the processes through which music is perceived,created,responded to,and incorporated into everyday life. Modern music psychology is primarily empirical;its knowledge tends to advance on the basis of interpretations of data collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants. Music psychology is a field of research with practical relevance for many areas,including music performance,composition,education,criticism,and therapy,as well as investigations of human attitude,skill,performance,intelligence,creativity,and social behavior.
Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA is the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a researcher at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.
Jonathon Stevens "Jon Driver" was a psychologist and neuroscientist. He was a leading figure in the study of perception,selective attention and multisensory integration in the normal and damaged human brain.
Anna Christina Nobre FBA,MAE,fNASc is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at Yale University in New Haven,CT,USA.
Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London,England. His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses,short-term memory deficits,reading and the dyslexias both in alphabetic scripts and Chinese,and mathematics and dyscalculia. He has also pioneered educational neuroscience,notably in the study of learners with special educational needs.
Embodied cognition is the concept suggesting that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of the organism. The cognitive features include a wide spectrum of cognitive functions,such as perception biases,memory recall,comprehension and high-level mental constructs and performance on various cognitive tasks. The bodily aspects involve the motor system,the perceptual system,the bodily interactions with the environment (situatedness),and the assumptions about the world built the functional structure of organism's brain and body.
Cecilia Heyes is a British psychologist who studies the evolution of the human mind. She is a Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences at All Souls College,and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy,and President of the Experimental Psychology Society.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.
Sophie Kerttu Scott is a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices,speech and laughter particularly speech perception,speech production,vocal emotions and human communication. She also serves as director of UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Usha Claire Goswami is a researcher and professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge,a Fellow of St. John's College,Cambridge,and the director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education,Downing Site. She obtained her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Oxford before becoming a professor of cognitive developmental psychology at the University College London. Goswami's work is primarily in educational neuroscience with major focuses on reading development and developmental dyslexia.
The UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences is a Division within the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London,United Kingdom. The Division offers teaching and training and undertakes research in psychology and communication and allied clinical and basic science. It is the largest university psychology department in England.
Sharon Thompson-Schill is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Her research covers the field of biological basis of human cognitive systems,including language,memory,perception,and cognitive control,and the relationships between these systems. As of 2023,she has produced more than 190 scientific publications,which collectively have been cited over 18,000 times.
Núria Sebastián Gallés is a cognitive scientist known for her work on bilingual language development and the impact of bilingualism on cognition. She is Professor of Psychology at Pompeu Fabra University where she heads the Speech Acquisition and Perception (SAP) Research Group. In 2012,Sebastián Gallés received the Narcis Monturiol Medal as recognition of her scientific contributions. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.
Kristen A. Lindquist is a psychologist and affective neuroscientist whose research focuses on language,emotions,and culture. Lindquist is known for her work on emotion words,suggesting that when speakers of different languages talk about common emotions like love,they may not mean the same thing. Her findings run counter to the view that there are universal emotions that are experienced the same across cultures. Lindquist is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Carolina Affective Science Lab at the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill.
Karen Denise Emmorey is a linguist and cognitive neuroscientist known for her research on the neuroscience of sign language and what sign languages reveal about the brain and human languages more generally. Emmorey holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the School of Speech,Language,and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University,where she directs the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Aikaterini Fotopoulou is a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist who is a professor at the University College London Research Department of Clinical,Educational and Health Psychology. She is the co-founder and Treasurer of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch and the President-Elect of the European Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Society. She is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and past co-chair of its International Convention,and the past President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association. Fotopoulou was the past Director of the London Neuropsychoanalysis Centre,Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society and coordinator of the London Neuropsychoanalysis Group.
AslıÖzyürek is a linguist,cognitive scientist and psychologist. She is professor at the Center for Language Sciences and the Donders Institute for Brain,Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen,and incoming Director of the Multimodal Language Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Seana Coulson is a cognitive scientist known for her research on the neurobiology of language and studies of how meaning is constructed in human language,including experimental pragmatics,concepts,semantics,and metaphors. She is a professor in the Cognitive Science department at University of California,San Diego,where her Brain and Cognition Laboratory focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of language and reasoning.
