The neurosciences as challenge and opportunity for psychology

The enormous success of the cognitive neurosciences poses a number of potentially threatening challenges for the psychology as a discipline. This contribution discusses several of these challenges and emphasizes the importance of meeting them - not the least because psychology is arguably the most essential link between the sciences and the humanities. A successful survival strategy for psychology should emphasize this bridging potential, which among other things requires that psychologists become more familiar with neuroscientific methodology, including their strengths and limitations, and that they engage more in interdisciplinary research and volatile, temporary research networks.