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Developments in brain imaging will continue to provide new insights into relationships between brain and mind states, states, and into psychological processes that can be quantified objectively and used to provide other measures of brain output besides overt behaviour and inferences from psychology experiments.
The next 20 years are likely to witness a revolution in our understanding of the human brain, with implications for virtually every domain of human activity, from mental health to software design and academic performance and real-life decision- making.
A wide range of technologies, from pharmaceuticals to implantable devices, and specialised cognitive or behavioural training (leading to regional brain activation through functional imaging), will enable extensions of human bodies, senses, and capabilities. This will lead to redefinition of various boundaries: natural versus artificial, alive versus dead, individual versus collective.
Gene expression mapping could popularize evolutionary psychology, an approach to understanding human behaviour that combines evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
