Abstract

At first glance, psychology and physics seem to have nothing in common. However, in both disciplines, sections are dealing with the study of one of the most complex objects in the universe: the human brain. Within psychology, neuropsychologists and neuroscientists “watch the brain at work” by measuring electrical and magnetic signals while participants perform tasks. Physics comprises the section of biophysics and is involved in the interdisciplinary field of computational neuroscience, in which the complex processes in the brain are represented with mathematical models. Furthermore, both disciplines focus on quantitative measurements and presenting their results in form of numbers.