CFIN joins an untraditional range of scientific disciplines, from anthropologists and linguists to doctors and physicists in an effort to study the human brain and human behaviour. The aim is to identify not only metabolic, biochemical, cellular, haemodynamic, structural and cognitive mechanisms underlying the brains remarkable ability to adapt itself to experience - but also to understand how their expression is modulated by metabolic, biochemical, cellular, haemodynamic, structural or cognitive context using a cross-disciplinary, integrative approach.