Research paper on Cognitive Neuroscience



Research paper on Cognitive Neuroscience

Abstract

We as the human beings are the social species on the earth and our tendency to be human totally dependent on our social nature and behaviors. The social nature of human beings is vitally important in its own meaning as it makes them aware and conscious and that consciousness comes from the processing of brain. As a new field of study which is about the social sciences of brain are questioning the neural processing of distinctive social behaviors which produces a huge amount of data that is highly complicated and puzzling. To find out some new linkages between the stimulus and human emotions, between the perceptions and actions, and between the representations of others which are all the disciplines of social behaviors, neuroscientists, psychologists, and ethologists are making mutual collaborations. The science of social brain is a matter of performing and observing and has a limited domain of cognition. Most of the studies emphasize on some emotional and motivational factors as well as some other perspectives of cognition like language, as it contributes to regulate social behaviours of human beings in a proper understanding manner (Churchland & Sejnowski, 1992). The processing architecture on which the above mentioned review is organized based on the complex processing of social information. Such complexity is raised in as a minimum three different ways. First way is the routes of parallel processing. For example, the pathways of subcortical structures and amygdala are more potential towards triggering the emotional responses rapidly, while the parietal and prefrontal cortical processing provides emotional behaviours of relatively slower types as it involves some components of self-regulation. Secondly, there are wide ranging feedbacks which are emerging from different levels of mind processing, and due to such diversified feedbacks it becomes complicated to reach any specific hierarchy of assigned levels of processing. Thirdly, the processing of stimuli in the contextual backgrounds or from the baseline mode of functioning of brain, introduces some considerable biases. For instance, the judgements of semantic types about people with the words that easily provides descriptions about them, with the comparison of judgements of several other objects, etc. Thus, such activations in the brain take place from an activation baseline in the regions which have such mind operations. This shows that the baseline activity of brain may reflect a mode of functioning that is properly tuned to categorize and interpret the world as a social place.

Introduction

Cognitive neuroscience is regarded as an important academic field of study concerning biological substrates which underlie with cognitive abilities. It works with a particular focus on the neural substrates regarding the distinctive processing of mind. It addresses the problems and queries about how a cognitive, psychological, and/or cognitive functioning is originated by the brain. Cognitive Neuroscience is a connected branch of both the neuroscience and psychology which overlap with some disciplines such as cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and physiological psychology. Cognitive neuroscience based upon several theories and assumptions in cognitive science along with some ...