What is "neuroscience"

Usage examples of "neuroscience".

No book whose central characters are young chicks could be complete without a tribute to Pat Bateson, who was responsible, back in the 1960s, for my first blind date with what has become a continuing obsession, and who since then has continued to sharpen the experimental wits of one whose first training was, after all, in the most reductionist of the neurosciences.

Early the next morning, they headed over to the small campus of Laurentian University and found room C002B, one of the labs used by the tiny Neuroscience Research Group.

As, at least in neuroscience, the theoretical limitations of naive reductionism become increasingly apparent, and cold-war suspicions recede into history, the time is ripe for the autonomous Soviet tradition in neurophysiology and psychology to be reassimilated into a more integrated and Universalists neuroscience.

A few years after my PhD, in the mid-1960s, I joined a small group of like-minded physiologists, anatomists and psychologists to establish the first neuroscience society in Britain - perhaps the world: the Brain Research Association.

A newly confident generation had bypassed the old battles of physiologists and biochemists and given their science a much more comprehensive name: neuroscience.

The vehicle slowed to a halt and hovered fifty feet above the roof of the Biochemistry building, which with Neurosciences and Physiology formed a trio facing the elongated bulk of Administration and Central Facilities across a plaza of colorful mosaic paving broken up by lawns and a bevy of fountains playing in the sun.

The modern field of cognitive science has come to include a diverse range of disciplines, including the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, psychology, linguistics, quantum theory, and evolutionary theory.

While scientific materialists generally acknowledge their ignorance of the origins, nature, and function of consciousness, they place their faith in future discoveries in the neurosciences to answer these questions.

After four centuries of advances in scientific knowledge, more than a century of psychological research, and roughly a half century of progress in the neurosciences, even most advocates of scientism acknowledge that science has yet to give any intelligible account of the nature of consciousness.

There are no shortcuts to gaining an undergraduate and graduate education in the neurosciences, and the development of technologies that have advanced this field has been made only with long, hard work.

Like Hacking, most contemporary philosophers of neuroscience, among the youngest of sciences, adopt scientific realism.

To understand ourselves demands a recognition of this openness, and of the fact that the sciences which can account for its consequences are no longer those of individual psychology or neuroscience, but of the collective of individuals who comprise human society.

We anticipate that the Mind and Life dialogues will improve and increase communications and strengthen ties in terms of mutual understanding of neurosciences, consciousness, brain, mind, and the like, and also add new insights into human nature which we believe can contribute to world peace.

And chemistry, and math, and geology, neuroscience, biology, statistics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aeronautics and astronomy, to give a nonexhaustive list.

All of this is totally unconscious to typical cultural natives, in two senses: we can never really directly experience neurotransmitters per se (nor the computational processes), but we can become aware of them theoretically if we just study neuroscience (we can remove the unconsciousness in that sense: we can gain the objective theoretical awareness of the nonconscious processes, just as we can gain scientific knowledge of subcellular biochemical processes, and so on).