AN INTRODUCTION TO - (Lecture Notes Only) Manda Williamson For AN IN...

Instructor’s Manual (Lecture Notes Only) Manda Williamson For

AN INTRODUCTION TO

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Fourth Edition Bryan Kolb Ian Q.Whishaw 1 / 4

Contents CHAPTER 1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior? 1 CHAPTER 2 How Does the Nervous System Function? 11 CHAPTER 3 What Are the Functional Units of the Nervous System? 25 CHAPTER 4 How Do Neurons Use Electrical Signals to Transmit Information 35 CHAPTER 5 How Do Neurons Use Electrochemical Signals to Communicate and Adapt? 45 CHAPTER 6 How Do Drugs and Hormones Influence the Brain and Behavior?55 CHAPTER 7 How Do We Study the Brain’s Structure and Functions? 67 CHAPTER 8 How Does the Nervous System Develop and Adapt? 79 CHAPTER 9 How Do We Sense, Perceive, and See the World?91 CHAPTER 10 How Do We Hear, Speak, and Make Music? 105 CHAPTER 11 How Does the Nervous System Respond to Stimulation and Produce

Movement? 115 CHAPTER 12 What Causes Emotional and Motivated Behavior? 129 CHAPTER 13 Why Do We Sleep and Dream? 143 CHAPTER 14 How Do We Learn and Remember? 157 CHAPTER 15 How Does the Brain Think? 169 CHAPTER 16 What Happens When the Brain Misbehaves? 183 2 / 4

C H A P T E R

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What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior?

TOPIC OVERVIEW

• Neuroscience in the Twenty-First Century
• Why Study Brain and Behavior?
• What Is the Brain?
• Gross Anatomy of the Nervous System
• What Is Behavior?

II. Perspectives on Brain and Behavior

• Aristotle and Mentalism
• Descartes and Dualism
• Darwin and Materialism
• Contemporary Perspectives on Brain and Behavior

III. Evolution of Brains and of Behavior

• Origin of Brain Cells and Brains
• Evolution of Animals Having Nervous Systems
• Chordate Nervous System

IV. Evolution of the Human Brain and Behavior

A. Humans: Members of the Primate Order

B. Australopithecus: Our Distant Ancestor

• The First Humans
• Relating Brain Size and Behavior 3 / 4

• Why the Hominid Brain Enlarged
• Modern Human Brain Size and Intelligence
• Meaning of Human Brain-Size Comparisons
• Culture

VI. Chapter Summary

LECTURE OUTLINE

NEUROSCIENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

• Why Study Brain and Behavior?

II. What Is the Brain?III. Gross Anatomy of the Nervous System IV. What Is Behavior?

PERSPECTIVES ON THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

• Aristotle and Mentalism

II. Descartes and Dualism III. Darwin and Materialism

• Evolution by Natural Selection
• Natural Selection and Heritable Factors
• Interplay of Genes, Environment, and Experience
• Summarizing Materialism

IV. Contemporary Perspectives on Brain and Behavior

A. Recovering Consciousness: A Case Study

• The Separate Realms of Science and Belief

EVOLUTION OF BRAINS AND BEHAVIOR

• Origin of Brain Cells and Brains

II. Evolution of Animals Having Nervous Systems III. Chordate Nervous System EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

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