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• 1 Biopsychology As a Neuroscience: What Is Biopsychology, Anyway?
• What Is Biopsychology?
• What Is the Relation Between Biopsychology and the Other Disciplines of Neuroscience?
• What Types of Research Characterize the Biopsychological Approach?
• What Are the Divisions of Biopsychology?
• Converging Operations: How Do Biopsychologists Work Together?
• Scientific Interference: How Do Biopsychologists Study the Unobservable Workings of the Brain?
• Critical Thinking About Biopsychological Claims
• 2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Thinking About the Biology of Behavior
• Thinking About the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Relations and Interactions
• Human Evolution
• Fundamental Genetics
• Behavioral Development: The Interaction of Genetic Factors and Experience
• The Genetics of Human Psychological Differences
• 3 The Anatomy of the Nervous System: The Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System
• General Layout of the Nervous System
• Cells of the Nervous System
• Neuroanatomical Techniques and Directions
• Spinal Cord
• The Five Major Divisions of the Brain
• Major Structures of the Brain
• 4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
• The Neurons Resting Membrane Potential
• Generation and Conduction of Postsynaptic Potentials
• Integration of Postsynaptic Potentials and Generation of Action Potentials
• Conduction of Action Potentials
• Synaptic Transmission: Chemical Transmission of Signals from One Neuron to Another
• The Neurotransmitters
• Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission
• 5 The Research Methods of Biopsychology: Understanding What Biopsychologists Do
• Methods of Visualizing and Stimulating the Living Human Brain
• Recording Human Psychophysiological Activity
• Invasive Physiological Research Methods
• Pharmacological Research Methods
• Genetic Engineering
• Neuropsychological Testing
• Behavioral Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Biopsychological Paradigms of Animal Behavior
• 6 The Visual System: From Your Eyes to Your Cortex
• Light Enters the Eye and Reaches the Retina
• The Retina and Translation of Light into Neural Signals
• From Retina to Primary Visual Cortex
• Seeing Edges
• Seeing Color
• 7 Mechanisms of Perception, Conscious Awareness, and Attention: How You Know the World
• Principles of Sensory System Organization
• Cortical Mechanisms of Vision
• Audition
• Somatosensation: Touch and Pain
• The Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste
• Selective Attention
• 8 The Sensorimotor System: How You Do What You Do
• Three Principles of Sensorimotor Function
• Sensorimotor Association Cortex
• Secondary Motor Cortex
• Primary Motor Cortex
• Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
• Descending Motor Pathways
• Sensorimotor Spinal Circuits
• Central Sensorimotor Programs
• 9 Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You
• Phases of Neural Development
• Postnatal Cerebral Development in Human Infants
• Effects of Experience on Early Development, Maintenance, and Reorganization of Neural Circuits
• Neuroplasticity in Adults
• Disorders of Neurodevelopment: Autism and Williams Syndrome
• 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage?