If neuroscience involved in the overall study of the brain, cognitive neuroscience will study in particular the operation. For example, when performing seemingly simple task, like listening to someone who speaks to us, many things must be done and kept under control: we must recognize that those sounds are language, and then make out the words from the other noises of the world, we must understand that the sound emitted by the person in front of us is not a single string, and then we split it into many parts, understand where it begins and ends a word (and not so trivial, just think about what happens when you hear a foreign language!) Finally we must also give meaning to these sounds that reach our ears ...
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International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Trieste, Italy 2001-2005
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