Abstract
Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. Luckily, human ingenuity comes to the rescue. Around the same time as the Society for Neuroscience was being established in the 1960s, the first tools for measuring the human brain at work were becoming available. Noninvasive human brain imaging and neurophysiology have continued developing at a relentless pace ever since. In this 50 year anniversary, we reflect on how these methods have been changing our understanding of how brain supports mind.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 89-100 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | The Journal of Neuroscience |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Jan 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Received April 1, 2019; revised July 14, 2019; accepted Aug. 1, 2019. This work was supported by Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award 104571/Z/14/Z and James S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Collaborative Award 220020448 to A.C.N, European Commission Ma-rieSklodowska-CurieFellowshipACCESS2WMtoF.v.E,andtheNationalInstituteforHealthResearchOxfordHealth Biomedical Research Centre. The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging was supported by core funding from Wellcome Trust 203139/Z/16/Z. The funders had no role in preparation of the manuscript, or the decision to publish. The authors declare no competing financial interests. Correspondence should be addressed to Anna Christina Nobre at [email protected]. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0742-19.2019 Copyright © 2020 Nobre and van Ede This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in anymediumprovidedthattheoriginalworkisproperlyattributed.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| European Commission Ma-rieSklodowska-CurieFellowshipACCESS2WMtoF | |
| National Institute for Health Research Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre | |
| James S. McDonnell Foundation | 220020448 |
| Wellcome Trust | 104571/Z/14/Z |
| NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research | |
| European Commission |
Keywords
- Electroencephalograhy (EEG)
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
- Historical overview
- Human brain imaging
- Human neurophysiology
- Selective attention