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1. Simple nervous system that has no brain or spinal cord but consists of neurons that receive sensory information and connect directly to other neurons that move muscles.

2. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.

3. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.

4. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.

5. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.

6. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.

7. Division into a number of parts that are similar; refers to the idea that many animals - including vertebrates - are composed of similarly organized body segments.

8. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..

9. Evolutionarily the newest part of the brain; coordinates advanced cognitive functions such as thinking - planning - and language; contains the limbic system - basal ganglia - and the neocortex.

10. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.

11. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.

12. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.

13. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.

14. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.

15. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.

16. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.

17. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.

18. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.

19. Disparate forebrain structures lying between the neocortex and the brainstem that form a functional system controlling affective and motivated behaviors and certain forms of memory; includes cingulate cortex - amygdala - hippocampus - among other str

20. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.

21. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.

22. Cerebral Cortex that functions to direct movements toward a goal or to perform a task - such as grasping an object - lying posterior to the central sulcus and beneath the parietal bone at the top of the skull.

23. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.

24. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.

25. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.

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