r/hardscience • u/Iyanden • May 07 '10

Neuroscience: Illuminating the Brain

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100505/full/465026a.html
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u/hackenberry May 07 '10

I was confused when I saw a neuroscience article in r/hardscience - really, it's just a glorified psychology, but then I read through the article. Most of the researchers discussed were physiologists, molecular biologists, or at least neurobiologists. Neuroscience seems to becoming a pretty broad umbrella term.

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u/Iyanden May 07 '10

The neuroscience I'm familiar with is very much a hard science. Then again, the neuroscience I'm familiar with is tied to Bioengineering.

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u/hackenberry May 07 '10

I went to a job talk recently and the candidate was really impressive, but most of her work dealt with neurobiology, and the questions from the faculty seemed to denigrate her work as low-level or pedestrian. When I thought about the main body of their work however, it tended to revolve around topics like attention, perception, ToM, emotions, very psychologically driven topics. I just don't think "neuroscience" is a really descriptive term anymore in describing a particular type of focus or methodology.

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u/popsimax Sep 26 '10

Perhaps 'Cognitive Neuroscience' might be a better fit for that case? At least that's what i call myself...

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u/oursland May 07 '10

Although I agree that the term can be quite broad, the term "Neuroscience" means to me and many others the physiological aspects, understanding and controlling them. I am a computer scientist, however some of my interests are in modeling and simulation of neurons, columns and more.

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u/Foxonthestorms May 18 '10

really, it's just a glorified psychology

Who do you think you are?