The Emergence of Cognitive Neuroscience

• cognitive neuroscience is the study of the influence of brain structures on mental processes
• Advances in brain imaging such as fMRI and PET scans

  have allowed scientists to observe and describe the neurological activities within the brain

  and how different mental processes correlate to different brain structures
• scanning techniques have also proved to be helpful in investigating the neurological basis of different mental disorders

  e.g the connection between the parahippocampal gyrus and OCD