Abstract
Starting up a new journal is an excellent occasion to reflect not only on the directions into which the targeted field is currently heading but also on the remaining challenges to be met and the shortcomings to be overcome. We will do so by putting research on human cognition (the field that we as the new specialty editors of Frontiers in Cognition represent) into a broader perspective and consider, among other things, the central role this research plays, or at least has the potential to play, in connecting other scientific areas and disciplines, as well as the social and infrastructural changes that will be necessary to successfully tackle the challenges that remain on our way to a truly integrative science of human cognition.
Highlights
EXPLOITING NEUROSCIENCE When one of us (Bernhard Hommel) first met John Gabrieli in the early 1990s on a very interdisciplinary and () very exciting meeting in Berlin, he was still skeptical about the use of the back increasingly popular neuroimaging methods for the functional understanding of cognitive processes.“But you think about it”, Gabrieli replied, “you got to admit that the cognitive neurosciences have made cognitive psychology so much more interesting”
Studies that are linking a particular brain area to a particular cognitive process commonly neglect the fact that the same area is involved in numerous other, often unrelated types of processes, and attempts to explain why that is are extremely rare as well
It will be crucial for the future of cognitive psychology and the cognitive sciences in general how we deal with this challenge
Summary
EXPLOITING NEUROSCIENCE When one of us (Bernhard Hommel) first met John Gabrieli in the early 1990s on a very interdisciplinary and () very exciting meeting in Berlin, he was still skeptical about the use of the back increasingly popular neuroimaging methods for the functional understanding of cognitive processes.“But you think about it”, Gabrieli replied, “you got to admit that the cognitive neurosciences have made cognitive psychology so much more interesting”. The great success of the cognitive neurosciences has already begun to shape the way psychologists ask their research questions, at least if they make use of modern neuroscientific techniques.
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