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 Your Mind: Language, Vision, and the Brain Hemispheres Defining Intelligence Emotional Intelligence Understanding Consciousness
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