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Can we talk? How the cognitive neuroscience of attention emerged from neurobiology and psychology, 1980–2005

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This study uses author co-citation analysis to trace prospectively the development of the cognitive neuroscience of attention between 1980 and 2005 from its precursor disciplines: cognitive psychology, single cell neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and evoked potential research. The author set consists of 28 authors highly active in attentional research in the mid-1980s. PFNETS are used to present the co-citation networks. Authors are clustered via the single-link clustering intrinsic to the PFNET algorithm. By 1990 a distinct cognitive neuroscience specialty cluster emerges, dominated by authors engaged in brain imaging research.

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Bruer, J.T. Can we talk? How the cognitive neuroscience of attention emerged from neurobiology and psychology, 1980–2005. Scientometrics 83, 751–764 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0128-5

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