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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognitive neuroscience mean? 

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (noun)
  The noun COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomenaplay

  Familiarity information: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cognitive neuroscience" is a kind of...):

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

Holonyms ("cognitive neuroscience" is a part of...):

cognitive science (the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind)


 Context examples 


These results show once again the importance of cognitive neuroscience also in the understanding of extremely topical clinical fields such as dietary disorders.

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