An integrative area of study (in fact, it comes close to being an inter discipline) that draws mainly from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience and linguistics to study the neural dynamics of psychological functions such as face processing, intra- and inter-hemisphere processing, learning and memory, and the development of such functions, using brain mapping and imaging techniques. It has been said that it evolved from dissatisfaction in neuropsychology with a lack of models for understanding the effects of circumscribed forms of brain damage (e.g., parietal lobe lesions) on cognitive performance tests, and which were to be found in cognitive psychology. Currently, its practitioners follow one of two broad directions: experimental behavioral research, often involving brain imaging, and computational or neural network modelling. However, it is not without its critics who see it as a potential threat to the future of psychology.
See Activation (in a connectionist model), Auto-encoder networks, Backpropagation, Brain (neuro-) imaging, Clinical neuropsychology, Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science, Common coding, Computational models, Connectionism, Developmental cognitive neuroscience, Interdiscipline, Linguistics, Neural nets, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Theory of the child’s mind (ToM)