title: Cognitive neuroscience.
abstract: The last decade of the 20th century has seen the development of cognitive neuroscience as an effort to understand how the brain represents mental events. We review the areas of emotional and motor memory, vision, and higher mental processes as examples of this new understanding. Progress in all of these areas has been swift and impressive, but much needs to be done to reveal the mechanisms of cognition at the local circuit and molecular levels. This work will require new methods for controlling gene expression in higher animals and in studying the interactions between neurons at multiple levels.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. tom@salk.edu
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Albright
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Kandel
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Posner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*