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Overview
Overview
Brain, behavior, and cognition are an integrated whole. But precisely where and how are the mind’s functions tied to the brain? Let’s first see how scientists explore such questions.
The brain’s increasing complexity arises from new systems built on top of the old, much as Earth’s landscape covers the old with the new. Digging down, one discovers the fossil remnants of the past—brainstem components performing for us much as they did for our distant ancestors. Let’s start with the brain’s base and work up to the newer systems.
Myers, Psychology
Learning Targets
11-1 Describe several techniques for studying the brain’s connections to behavior and mind.
11-2 Describe the components of the brainstem, and summarize the functions of the brainstem, thalamus, reticular formation, and cerebellum.
11-3 Describe the limbic system’s structures and functions.
Readings
Module 11, Studying the Brain, Older Brain Structures, and the Limbic System, pages 91-97.
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