Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
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loginCognitive neuroscience is a fairly young but rapidly growing discipline of science that aims at solving the intriguing question of how the brain (or, more generally, the body) gives rise to the human mind; how the brain enables one to think, plan, remember, understand other people, see, hear, and move about. Solving this so-called mind-body problem has been a central quest ever since the days of ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato, though many of the early philosophers mistook the brain as an organ merely responsible for cooling the body and not as the seat of thoughts, memories, emotions, and motivation that are collectively nowadays referred to as cognition. It is today, with the aid of modern neuroimaging technology, that it is becoming increasingly possible to shed light on the neural basis of cognitive functions.
