Part II: Neuroanatomy: Organizing the Nervous System
Chapter 5: Movement Basics: Muscles and Motor Neurons
Making a Move: Muscle Types and What They Do
Pulling Your Weight: How Muscle Cells Contract
Controlling Muscle Contraction
Knowing Where Your Limb Is Located
Reflexing without Reflecting
Exercise and Aging
Chapter 6: The Spinal Cord and the Autonomic Nervous System
Segmenting the Spine
Spying on the Spinal Cord
Feeling and Acting: The Peripheral Nervous System
Correcting Errors: The Cerebellum
Fighting or Fleeing: The Autonomic Nervous System
Chapter 7: The Busy Brain: Brainstem, Limbic System, Hypothalamus, and Reticular Formation
The Brainstem: Medulla, Pons, Midbrain
Counting the Cranial Nerves
Controlling Your Motives: The Limbic System
Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System: The Hypothalamus
Reading Up on the Reticular Formation
Chapter 8: Generating Behavior: Basal Ganglia, Thalamus, Motor Cortex, and Frontal Cortex
The Basal Ganglia and Its Nuclei
Controlling Muscles: The Primary Motor Cortex
Coordinating Muscle Groups: Central Control
The Thalamus: Gateway to the Neocortex
Focusing on Goals with the Prefrontal Cortex
Knowing, or Not Knowing, Who’s In Control
Chapter 9: Topping It Off: The Neocortex
Looking Inside the Skull: The Neocortex and Its Lobes
Getting to the Brain You Have Today: The Neocortex versus Your Reptilian Brain
Making Decisions: The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
Doing the Right Thing
Seeing Both Sides: The Left and Right Hemispheres
Gender and the Brain
7 Part III: Perceiving the World, Thinking, Learning, and Remembering Chapter 10: Looking at Vision and Hearing Imaging and Capturing Light: Vision Joining the Nervous System: Photoreceptor Output Sending the Message to the Brain Fanning Out in the Occipital Lobe Streaming the Message to the Temporal and Parietal Lobes Listening In: Capturing Sound Waves Channeling Sounds to the Brain Losing Hearing Balancing via the Vestibular System: “Hearing” the Fluid Sloshing in Your Head Chapter 11: Feeling, Smelling, and Tasting Getting in Touch with the Skin Recognizing What We Touch at Somatosensory Cortex Sniffing Out the World around You Tasting Basics: Sweet, Sour, Salt, and Bitter Receptors Tasting with the Brain Monitoring Internal Body Functions with Internal Chemoreceptors Chapter 12: Memory and Learning Evolving with Adaptation and Instinct Implicit (Non-Declarative) Memory The Long and Short of It: Immediate versus Permanent Memory Memory Mechanisms and Brain Loci Learning by Changing Synaptic Strengths Forgetting It: Amnesia and Other Memory Loss Improving Your Learning Chapter 13: The Frontal Lobes and Executive Brain Reflexes versus Conscious or Goal-Generated Action Deciding How to Do It: The Frontal Lobes and Action Execution Initiating Action in the Basal Ganglia Coordinating through the Supplementary and Premotor Cortices Mirroring Others: Mirror Neurons Chapter 14: Language, Intelligence, Emotions, and Consciousness Adapting Our Brains for Language Following Thought through Sensory Pathways and Hierarchies Speaking
