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Notes for the book's main text, as opposed to the book's appendix.
See all notes organized by lesson or by page number.
Pages in category "Lesson notes"
The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total.
A
- A brain that efficiently supervises over six hundred muscles in motion
- A budget for your body
- A human embryo creates twice as many neurons
- A storm of sense data
- Abstraction and concepts
- Acculturation
- Acting on autopilot
- Additional genes sneak in from the outside world
- Affect and belief in God
- Affect may be universal
- Airport metaphor
- Amygdala hijack
- Are you salivating yet?
- Aroma of breast milk
- Automatic with practice
B
C
- Caregivers help a baby's brain to maintain allostasis
- Catalog of mental disorders
- Cerebral cortex
- Changes in brain size
- Chemical modifications
- Children more easily learn language
- China's one-child policy
- Co-regulation
- Cocktail party effect
- Comparing animal brains
- Comparing brains in different species
- Cortisol
- Cost of illness
- Critical and sensitive periods
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- Neural communication must balance speed against cost
- Neural configurations
- Neurons are grouped into clusters
- Neurons can change conversation partners
- Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators
- Newborns can distinguish a wide range of language sounds
- Niche
- Niche construction
- No brain area has a single psychological function