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University College London

Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: medicine, health care

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

University website: www.ucl.ac.uk

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. The brain is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. In a human, the cerebral cortex contains approximately 15–33 billion neurons, each connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells.

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Brain

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain.

Dejan Stojanovic, in Circling, ”In Search of Spark,” Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys” (1993)

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Brain

We do have an organ for understanding and recognizing moral facts. It is called the brain.

Paul Churchland, in A Neurocomputational Perspective (1989)

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Brain

It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.

Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993)

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