It is an exciting time for the discipline of cogni-tive neuroscience. In the past 10 years we have witnessed an explosion in the development andadvancement of methods that allow us to preciselyexamine the neural mechanisms underlying cog-nitive processes. Functional magnetic resonanceimaging, for example, has provided markedly im-proved spatial and temporal resolution of brainstructure and function, which has led to answers tonew questions, and the reexamination of old ques-tions..