Question: Are you a social or behavioral phsychologist?

Tom Hartley answered on 15 Jun 2010:

Neither – I would call myself a cognitive neuroscientist. The main difference is that I am interested in how the brain works. Psychology is really the experimental study of behaviour (individual and social), and there is a lot you can learn and understand about behaviour without looking inside the brain. Many psychologists believe that you can even understand how the “mind” works without worrying about the brain (although this view is less popular than it used to be). I don’t think you can really separate the mind (i.e., the thing which thinks, remembers, senses, and plans our actions etc.) from the brain (i.e., the thing between your ears which makes all the thinking possible). I don’t agree with this, and I think it’s fantastic that we now have techniques like fMRI that let us see what happens in the brain when we think.