Neurophysiological Approaches to Understanding Behavior  

Oleh:

Heatherton, Todd F. ; Krendl, Anne C. ; Wagner, Dylan D.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Human Behavior in Military Contexts (Committee on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military), page 217-238.
Topik: Behavior Military; Neurophysiological; Neuroscience
Fulltext: behavior military (paper6).pdf (143.24KB)

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A biological revolution is occurring in the behavioral and social sciences, with an increasing emphasis on the use of neuroscience methods to understand human behavior, especially across the various subareas of psychology. The field of neuroscience reflects the interdisciplinary effort to understand the structure, function, physiology, biology, biochemistry, and pathology of the nervous system. From a psychological perspective, however, the term neuroscience typically is used to refer primarily to the study of the brain. Of interest is how the brain gives rise to learning, cognition, and behavior. Since the late 1980s, there has been dramatic growth in the field of cognitive neuroscience, which combines cognitive psychology, computational sciences, and neuroscience to examine how brain activity gives rise to cognitive abilities (e.g., memory, emotion, attention, language, consciousness). Indeed, this approach has been quite successful in providing new insights into many of these mental functions (Gazzaniga, 2004).

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