Compare and contrasttheneurocorrelationalandtheneuropsychologicalapproaches to neuroscience research.
What will be an ideal response?
The neurocorrelational and neuropsychological approaches compare because they both seek insights into the neuroscience of aging, must be applied appropriately and ethically, and have revealed new findings that psychological theories have to account for and be consistent with. They contrast because they arrive at conclusions from different approaches. Theneurocorrelationalmethodofresearchexaminestherelationsbetweenmeasuresofcognitiveperformanceandmeasuresofbrainstructureorfunctioning.Inthismethod,insteadofusingdirectmeasuresofbrainfunctioning,researchersmayusebehavioralteststhatareassociatedwiththefunctioningofonebrainregionoranother.Theneuropsychologicalapproach,ontheotherhand,attemptstocomparethebrainfunctioningofhealthyolderadultswiththebrainfunctioningofadultsshowingvariousbrainpathologies.Scientistswishtounderstandwhetherchangesincertainareasofthebrain,duetoagingorinjury,resultinthesametypesofstructuralorfunctionalissues.
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