Under the mind's hood: What we have learned by watching the brain at work

Anna Christina Nobre; Freek van Ede

doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0742-19.2019

Under the mind's hood: What we have learned by watching the brain at work

Anna Christina Nobre^*, Freek van Ede

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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
Pages (from-to)	89-100
Number of pages	12
Journal	The Journal of Neuroscience
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0742-19.2019
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Electroencephalograhy (EEG)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Historical overview
Human brain imaging
Human neurophysiology
Selective attention

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