The emergence of cognitive neuroscience

• > Study of the brain structures, mechnisms, processes, chemistry that are responsible for cognitive processes

  > This is a theory that has recently emerged as technology has advanced, enabling psychologists to use brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET scans

  > This is achieved by comparing people with a disorder to those without a disorder to identify the physical basis for cogntive processes in the brain
• > Cognitive neuroscience believes that computer models are important in understanding how individuals think

  > Tulvings research is one example of cognitive neuroscience in action

  > Whilst ppts completed tasks requiring the use of their episodic and semantic memory, the use of PET scans lead Tulving to discover different parts of the LTM are located in different areas of the brain