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cognitive sciences

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cognitive sciences
The areas of medicine that study the nature and processes of mental activity–eg, neurology, psychiatry, psychology


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MIT Press' (Cambridge, MA) Science, Technology & Medicine group has begun the publication of "Biological Theory," a new quarterly journal that is devoted to coverage of theoretical advances in the biological and cognitive sciences.
Those findings don't necessarily show that language is necessary for mathematical thinking, contend two researchers in the January Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Our understanding of physiologic systems has of course evolved substantially during the past 150 years, and today sophisticated, if domain-specific, mathematical models are used to simulate, plan, and interpret experiments in numerous branches of biomedicine including endocrinology, cardiovascular physiology, immunology, neurophysiology, and the cognitive sciences.
 
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