Integrating Neurocognitive Knowledge into Psychology

Dear Colleagues,

Psychology, the scientific study of experience and behavior, strives to build models of the mental processing architecture. It has its vantage point with the first-person perspective, the mind perspective of the mind/brain. It starts at this side of the psychophysical divide. Since the late 1950s, the cognitive paradigm, which holds a functionalistic account of mental processes as representations and computations over them, holds the reign. It assumes that these computations are largely independent of the hardware they are implemented on.

Brain sciences, on the other hand, starts at the other side of the psychophysical divide, using the third person perspective to elucidate biological processes—neurobiology, in particular. Interestingly, the cognitive paradigm, from early on, was developed into cognitive science which has been an interdisciplinary endeavor from the get-go, including the neurosciences.

To date, psychology is characterized by varying degrees of integrating neurobiological knowledge into the theoretical accounts of mental functions. While, on the one hand, a wealth of neurobiological accounts are integrated into theories of perception, in particular visual perception, on the other hand, this is far less the case for processes of judgment and decision making, as well as apparently, even simpler accounts of information selection in selective attention.

This Special Issue will review the status quo and elucidate trajectories of integration of neurocognitive knowledge into psychology.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Jacobsen
Mr. Michael Sprengel
Guest Editors

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