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neuroesthetics
thumb| Researchers are looking to neuroscience for answers behind why the human brain finds artistic works like DaVinci's [[Mona Lisa so alluring.]]
neuroethics
right|thumb|260px|Deep brain stimulation and other brain interventions raise moral issues about free will, valid consent, and enhancement. In philosophy and neuroscience, neuroethics is the study of both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience concerns the ethical, legal, and social impact of neuroscience, including the ways in which neurotechnology can be used to predict or alter human behavior and "the implications of our mechanistic understanding of brain function for society... integrating neuroscientific knowledge with ethical and social thoug
neurophilosophy
Neurophilosophy, or the philosophy of neuroscience, is the interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind. Recent scientific discourse elucidates the distinction between "neurophilosophy" and "philosophy of neuroscience".
neurophenomenology
Neurophenomenology refers to a scientific research program aimed at addressing the hard problem of consciousness in a pragmatic way. It combines neuroscience with phenomenology to study experience, mind, and consciousness with an emphasis on the embodied condition of the human mind. The field is very much linked to fields such as neuropsychology, neuroanthropology,and behavioral neuroscience (also known as biopsychology) and the study of phenomenology in psychology.
neuroscience of free will
the study of topics related to free will (volition and sense of agency) using neuroscience