[In Context] Form and function in the brain

Neuroscientists, neurologists, and psychiatrists have all sought to visualise what is happening within the brain. What are the internal representations of the external world? What are the forms taken by our feelings, motivations, and memories? What structures actually turn all these sensations and cognitions into action—whether adaptive or maladaptive?

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