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In the previous chapter we looked at the phenomena of higher human cognition. The brain is the organ where much of the activity supporting higher cognition takes place, and in this chapter we will provide an overview of major brain anatomy structures, and a simplified overview of neurons and their physiology within those structures. In Chaps. 4 and 5 we will describe the physiology and chemistry of neurons in much more detail. Then in Chap. 6 we will describe the anatomy and physiology of the seven major structures and a number of smaller structures in more detail.
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Coward, L.A. (2013). Brain Anatomy. In: Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7107-9_3
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