ABSTRACT

Neuroscience is the scientifi c study of the nervous system, its anatomical structure and physiology, and in the past was regarded as just a branch of biology. However, in the past fi fty years it has become an interdisciplinary science that includes neurochemistry, medical neurology and surgery, psychology, linguistics, logic, electronics, computer science and neuroimaging. Neuroscientifi c methods are used in the analysis of cognitive psychology, including studies of perception, memory, comprehension, judgment and action, and neuroeconomics is emerging as a new member of the family of neurosciences.