Cognitive Neuroscience

Neural substrates of attention, perception, memory, language, and executive function in humans.

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Cognitive Neuroscience addresses neural substrates of attention, perception, memory, language, and executive function in humans. As a subfield of neuroscience, it sits within the broader biology branch of the Charted science tree and connects upward to the methodological themes of its parent area.

A more detailed frontier sourcing pass for this topic is deferred to a follow-up OpenAlex wave; the current sources include Kandel, Principles of Neural Science, each kept as a placeholder anchor for the next iteration. See the parent topic (biology/neuroscience) for the wider context this page will eventually slot into.

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Sources

  • textbook · primary · 2021
    Principles of Neural Science
    kandel-2021, koester-2021, mack-2021, siegelbaum-2021

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