PSYCH 023: Basic Systems Neuroscience
Understanding individual neurons is only the beginning. This chapter shifts the lens to systems neuroscience - exploring how networks of interconnected regions work together to produce cognition, emotion, and action.
In this episode, we examine how the brain operates as a set of distributed systems rather than isolated modules. Circuits linking cortical and subcortical regions coordinate functions such as attention, memory, emotion regulation, and decision-making.
We explore key principles of organisation - integration, segregation, and hierarchical processing - showing how specialised…
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