Elementary analyses of thinking processes by means of psychophysical and neuroscience methods

The fact that classes of elementary thinking problems are investigated with psychophysical methods is a product of the expansion of psychophysical par adigms by means of inference processes and by the specification of tasks in thinking psychology. With respect to the structure aspect in thinking psychology, we interpreted thinking as reduction of cognitive complexity by means of simplification o f cognitive structures and processes. We demonstrate that the reduction of complexity determined by means of psychophysical methods can by accompanied by means of neuroscience methods. With respect to the modality aspect in thinking psychology, we consider thi nking as formation and interaction of conceptual and imaginal representatio n. For this approach neuroscience methods are a presupposition to analyse t hinking processes because psychophysical methods do not distinguish between these two mental representations.