neuroscientific

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ scientific.

Adjective

neuroscientific (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to neuroscience.
   • 2018 September, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex‎^[1], volume 106, pages 26–35:

     Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.

Derived terms

• neuroscientifically