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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 10-18Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01094.x
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- National Institute of Mental Health
- [P50 MH72850]
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That the human brain is the organ of the mind is not in dispute, but we know remarkably little about the brain mechanisms underlying the mind. What are the functional structures and computational processes of the human brain that subserve cognition, emotion, and behavior? Given the complexity of the human brain, progress in understanding the functional organization and structure of the human brain depends on sophisticated theoretical specifications of the psychological representations and processes that differentiate two or more comparison conditions. Psychological scientists, therefore, are well positioned to lead the search for brain mechanisms underlying psychological processes. Doing so constitutes an expansion of the purview of psychological science beyond a science of behavior, and beyond a science of the mind, to include a science of the brain. Such an expansion of the mission of psychological science has implications for the infrastructure and training needs of the discipline.
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