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Brain architecture : understanding the basic plan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swanson, Larry W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Brain.
Nervous System > anatomy & histology.
Neuroanatomy.
Table of Contents:
  • How the brain works : structure and function
  • The simplest nervous systems : neurons, nerve nets, and behavior
  • Centralization and symmetry : ganglia and nerves
  • The basic vertebrate plan : nervous system topology
  • Brain and behavior : a four systems network model
  • The motor system : coordinating external and internal behaviors
  • The behavioral state system : intrinsic control of sleep and wakefulness
  • The cognitive system : thinking and voluntary control of behavior
  • The sensory system : inputs from the environment and the body
  • Modifiability : learning, stress, cycles, and damage repair
  • Gene networks : relationship to neural networks