ABSTRACT
Understanding the neural mechanisms of cognitive processes, such as thought, perception, and language, or cognitive neuroscience, has been a rapidly progressing discipline for the last two decades. This expansion has been driven primarily by significant advances in the development of technology to observe the activity of the living human brain in action. Revolutionary techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), event-related potentials (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been at the heart of this revolution, and we now know much about how the human brain processes sensory information, plans and controls movement, perceives and produces speech, and experiences emotions.
