Neurociencia cognitiva o moderna neurociencia

This commentary is a reflection upon the conceptual segregation of Cognitive Neuroscience, a subject area devoted to the study of the biological foundations of human mind, from the more general domain of Neuroscience, in order to consider it as a distinct and separate scientific discipline. Perhaps such a conceptual segregation can be supported on the basis of pedagogical or academic organization, but do not seem to reflect strictly scientific reasons nor does it correspond with the historical evolution of disciplines. It is also important to evaluate the dangers of an artificial segregation of subject fields whose spontaneous evolution depends on the mutual convergence and interaction between their fields of knowledge.