title: Cognitive neuroscience: the troubled marriage of cognitive science and neuroscience.
abstract: We discuss the development of cognitive neuroscience in terms of the tension between the greater sophistication in cognitive concepts and methods of the cognitive sciences and the increasing power of more standard biological approaches to understanding brain structure and function. There have been major technological developments in brain imaging and advances in simulation, but there have also been shifts in emphasis, with topics such as thinking, consciousness, and social cognition becoming fashionable within the brain sciences. The discipline has great promise in terms of applications to mental health and education, provided it does not abandon the cognitive perspective and succumb to reductionism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of LondonCognitive Neuroscience Sector, SISSA, Trieste, and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London.
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shallice
mesh_terms: D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends
keywords: Brain imaging; Cognitive neuropsychology; History; Neuroscience