Neuroimaging as a New Tool in the Toolbox of Psychological Science.
Authors:
Cacioppo, John T.1 cacioppo@uchicago.edu.
Berntson, Gary G.2
Nusbaum, Howard C.1
Source:
Current Directions in Psychological Science. Apr2008, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p62-67. 6p.
Document Type:
Article
Subject Terms:
*IMAGING systems
*NEUROSCIENCES
*SENSORY perception
*ATTENTION
*MEMORY
*SOCIAL perception
Author-Supplied Keywords:
clinical processes
cognitive processes
developmental processes
functional magnetic resonance imaging
social processes
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Abstract:
During the past quarter century, advances in imaging technology have helped transform scientific fields. As important as the data made available by these new technologies have been, equally important have been the guides provided by existing theories and the converging evidence provided by other methodologies. The field of psychological science is no exception. Neuroimaging is an important new tool in the toolbox of psychological science, but it is most productive when its use is guided by psychological theories and complemented by converging methodologies including (but not limited to) lesion, electrophysiological, computational, and behavioral studies. Based on this approach, the articles in this special issue specify neural mechanisms involved in perception, attention, categorization, memory, recognition, attitudes, social cognition, language, motor coordination, emotional regulation, executive function, decision making, and depression. Understanding the contributions of individual and functionally connected brain regions to these processes benefits psychological theory by suggesting functional representations and processes, constraining these processes, producing means of falsifying hypotheses, and generating new hypotheses. From this work, a view is emerging in which psychological processes represent emergent properties of a widely distributed set of component processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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1University of Chicago
2Ohio State University
ISSN:
0963-7214
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00550.x
Accession Number:
31573880
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