Send us your questions, and we'll add those of general interest to this FAQ list. The brain is not simple. Accordingly, the study of the brain is not just a biological science. In fact, ever since the Hixon Symposium at the California Institute of Technology in September 1948, cognitive science has been regarded as an interdisciplinary field. Presenters included John von Neumann from mathematics and Karl Lashley from psychology.
Some academic programs emphasize information science, while others emphasize neurobiology.
But the field is genuinely interdisciplinary. Traditionally, the brain has been defined as the subject of biology, while the mind belonged to psychology. That dichotomy became entrenched when Descartes supposedly made a deal with the church, that they would leave him alone if he professed only to study the brain and left the mind to the theologians. Current thinking does not view these two subjects as separate. One makes no sense without the other.