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Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience
is an academic field concerned with the scientific study of biological substrates underlying
cognition
, with a specific focus on the
neural substrates
of
mental processes
. It addresses the questions of how psychological/cognitive functions are produced by neural circuits in the brain. Cognitive neuroscience is a branch of both
psychology
and
neuroscience
, overlapping with disciplines such as
physiological psychology
,
cognitive psychology
, and
neuropsychology
. Cognitive neuroscience relies upon theories in
cognitive science
coupled with evidence from neuropsychology, and
computational modeling
.
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