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"Systems" neuroscience

While typing up the preceding post about our search for a new colleague, it occured to me that "systems neuroscience" sounds a bit foggy - or doesn't it? Here's a definition, cribbed from the MIT Department for Brain and Cognitive Sciences:

"Systems neuroscience follows the pathways of information flow within the central nervous system, attempts to define the kinds of processing occurring there, and uses this information to help explain behavioral functions. Investigators work to understand sensory and perceptual systems and motor control, and how expectations and motivational states influence these basic processes."

Would you agree? Or do you use a different definition?

Posted by Annette Markus at 04:08 PM on November 07, 2005 | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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I think they should change the "central nervous system" to just "nervous system", because one of the major objectives of system neuroscience is to explain behavior, which is executed by peripheral nervous system. And also there are primary infomation processing outside central nervous system, such as dorsal root ganglion.

Posted by: Haijiang Cai | November 23, 2005 08:17 PM

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