NPB 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Complex System

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1 Jun 2018

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Lecture 12

Neural Control of Behavior

Behavior Depends on Excitable Cells

- Unicellular organisms

o Electrical changes within cell modify behavior

- Multicellular organisms

o Nervous system control behavior

Nervous System

- Receive information from environment (sensory)

- Process information (integrative)

- Regulate response (command)

Levels of Organization of Nervous System Function

- Cellular and below

- Simple circuits

- Complex systems

How Do Nervous System Controls Behavior?

- Clues from studies of instinctive behavior

o Copulatory behavior in insects

o Amplexus behavior in amphibian

o Bill pecking behavior in young gulls

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