The Neurohumanities: An Emerging Partnership for Exploring the Human Experience

Neuroscience has an extraordinary opportunity to investigate issues historically addressed by the arts, humanities, and social sciences. As a guide, we suggest three features of meaningful progress in the collaborative field, the neurohumanities, which we illustrate through a discussion of “neural schemas.” Neuroscience has an extraordinary opportunity to investigate issues historically addressed by the arts, humanities, and social sciences. As a guide, we suggest three features of meaningful progress in the collaborative field, the neurohumanities, which we illustrate through a discussion of “neural schemas.”