Why Brains?
Every system in the body has connections here to support our everyday lives.
What is the brain?
Behaviors are shaped and caused by this aspect of embodiment.
What are constraints?
This part of the nervous system covers vegetative functions, and houses sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The brain can be seen as this type of system due to its ability to correct changes and keep our bodily systems regulated.
What is a control system?
This part of the brain produces Raphae nuclei that produce neurotransmitters
What is the reticular formation?
Complex behaviors require this
What are complex brains?
This term arises from interactions between the organism and its environment.
What is behavior?
This part of the peripheral nervous system has 12 moving parts involved in sensory and motor functions.
What are the cranial nerves?
Fuel, find, move, digest, and avoid are
What are basic functions/needs?
Motivated behaviors such as hunger, thirst, temperature, and mating are regulated by this area of the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?
Organisms without brains have this
What are neural nets?
James Gibson coined this term for "opportunities for action"
What are affordances?
The 4 divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System
What are the cranial nerves, somatic nerves, enteric system, and ANS?
The substance that provides cushion, nutrients, structure, and washes waste out, among other functions.
What is cerebral spinal fluid?
This part of the limbic system is wrongfully called the "fear" area of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
Contrary to AI systems, the brain is this.
What is efficient?
The term for seeing high levels of complexity that cannot be explained by lower levels alone.
What is emergence?
What is antagonistic?
The 3 major functions of the brain stem.
What is conduit, cranial nerves #3-#12, and integrative functions?
This translates to "forebrain" and splits into telencephalon and diencephalon during development.
What is prosencephalon?
Bigger brains, more receptors, greater needs, and coordinating systems imply that brains provide...
What is flexibility?
Lisa F. Barrett coined this term to refer to how the brain manages what happens inside the body.
What is body budgeting?
Bundle of axons are called this in the CNS.
What is a tract/pathway?
This aspect of the brain ensures no big molecules such as viruses and harmful bacterias enter, while regulating supplies to all other neurons.
What is the blood brain barrier?
This is how the basal ganglia initiates wanted behaviors while inhibiting unwanted behaviors.
What is the corticostriatalthalamic loop?