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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 phenomena
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
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