Cognitive Neuroscience

• What is cognitive neuroscience?

  Aims to create a detailed map of localised functions in the brain.
• What do the frontal lobe and motor area work together to coordinate? 


  Movement.
• What do the temporal lobe and amygdala do together?

  Process emotion and aggression.
• How does the structure and function of the brain relate to cognition?

  Different types of memory are in different areas of the brain?
• How does cognitive neuroscience interact with mental illness?

  Low serotonin affects thinking (e.g suicidal thoughts) and behaviour (low mood, depression)