APS Award Address

Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century: From Lab and Clinic to Home, School, and Office

Martha Farah University of Pennsylvania

The 1990's were called "the decade of the brain" in recognition of progress in understanding normal brain function and treating neurological and psychiatric disorders. What the next few decades may come to be recognized for is the expanded influence of cognitive neuroscience beyond the research lab and clinic, into the home, office, school, courtroom, battle field, and beyond. In this talk I will reflect on some of the ways in which cognitive neuroscience is poised to change our lives, with its powerful new tools for monitoring and manipulating the human mind and with its physical, mechanistic view of human nature.