• Question: how do you find the diffrence betwwen brains and their behaviour

    Asked by Reece to Iroise on 8 Nov 2016.
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      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 8 Nov 2016:


      I am not totally sure what you mean by this. I am a believer that behaviour is fully driven by our brains. So a particular pattern of brain activity will lead to a particular behaviour. But we don’t yet have methods that enable us to make that link directly, because either we are averaging across lots of brain cells (like with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or electroencephalography (EEG)) or we are only looking at a few brain cells in a lot of details (like animal studies doing electrophysiological recordings of brain cells).

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