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ShareNeuropsychology is a branch of psychology and neurology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific psychological processes.
It is scientific in its approach and shares an information processing view of the mind with cognitive psychology and cognitive science.
It is one of the more eclectic of the psychological disciplines, overlapping at times with areas such as neuroscience, philosophy (particularly philosophy of mind), neurology, psychiatry and computer science (particularly by making use of artificial neural networks).
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