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Biopsychology, or psychobiology, is the scientific study of behavioral and mental processes as biological processes, hence as falling within the province of biology. More precisely, the driving assumption of biopsychology is that the behavior of animals endowed with a nervous system is controlled by the latter, and that their mental or subjective life, if any, is a collection of neural processes. This assumption incudes then the strong or emergentist identity hypothesis that mental events are brain events (section 3.1).
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Bunge, M., Ardila, R. (1987). Neurobiology. In: Philosophy of Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4696-1_7
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