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?