Environmental Neuroscience
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2020) | Viewed by 9892
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental neuroscience is an emerging field devoted to the scientific study of brain-mediated bi-directional relationships between organisms and their social and physical environments. Environmental neuroscience considers factors that vary across multiple temporal and spatial scales and interact to produce certain behaviors. In order to explicitly model the dynamics of these environments using brain–behavior interactions, environmental neuroscience builds on the multi-level frameworks of social and network neuroscience. These frameworks use multiple levels of analysis to qualitatively guide and interpret research. It is important to model interactions within a level (e.g., brain network connectivity) and also between levels (e.g., the relationship between brain network connectivity and genomic function and also the relationship between brain network connectivity and the network dynamics of a city). Environmental neuroscientists build on these ideas by measuring the spatial and temporal dynamics of the interactions between different levels of analysis, such as how being a carrier of certain genetic polymorphisms may affect an individual’s benefits from interactions with urban greenspace or how different enriched environments affect structural and functional brain networks in non-human species. According to environmental neuroscience, examining all of these levels of analysis at different temporal and spatial scales will lead to greater understanding of behaviors. In addition, the collection of data across these scales and the measurement of their interactions will generate rich datasets that will continue to yield insights as new ways to model these complex multi-level systems are developed, all of which will lead to advances in behavioral understanding.
We invite authors to submit articles to this Special Issue of Brain Sciences, “Environmental Neuroscience”, that examine how the physical and social environment that surrounds us affects brain processes and behavior.
Dr. Marc G. Berman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental neuroscience
- (epi)genetics
- complex systems
- hierarchical systems
- network neuroscience
- environmental psychology
- environmental justice
- cognitive psychology
- social neuroscience
- architecture and urban planning
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