sábado, 2 de agosto de 2008

Cognitives Neurosciences




Psychology has a lot of interesting areas, but I like psychology related with biology, especially the neuroscience area. This area studies structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system. I like the relationship between our biological constitution and the mind (how the mind mades our perceptions over the biological mechanism).

This area is difficult to studie in Chile now, but our country is the most advanced in Latin America. There are some laboratories in Chile, in some Universities that research the nervous sistem and human psychology.

However, now the interest in this area is increasing, because the marketing studies need information about the brain and the way of perceive, for example.

Finally, It´s important to emphasize the Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela contributions to change the limited biological paradigm. With their studies and thought the human psychology have been integrated like important way of explanation in the scientific research.


Some links to visit.


Different scientific research: neuroscience.com
About Neuropsychology: neuropsychology.com

visual perception web sites

Hello!

Today, I want to show you one website related with my studie area. I´m studying psychology, but I´m interested in neuroscience area, above all in perception.

Visual perception is very interesting, you can to understand how to work the eyes and the brains mechanism to interpretate this perceptions, and besides, you can to learn about “the mind” mades our visual perception (color perceptions, for example). In this link you can find all about visual perception.

In the second link , you can find a great article about a new descovery bases in the complex mechanism of the brain. People who was born blind, now can see! The differents senses complement each other and thank to a new computational technology, the scientifics have developed the way to blind people can see through sound.