Bridging psychological and biological science: The good, bad, and ugly

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 772-775

  Shimamura, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological psychology; Cognitive neuroscience; Functional neuroimaging; Localization; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954991932     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691610388781     Document Type: Article

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