Annettte wrote:
"Personally, if it was me, I would have put the cortices in the forebrain
> and all the subcortical stuff together in the midbrain to help students,
> at least, understand the distinction between what I see is a way of
> "categorizing" or "organizing" the structures based on related
> phylogeny and function."
>
I agree that for pedagogical purposes in a physiological psych course it
might be more useful to use a functional division of the brain rather than
the traditional system based on embryology and comparative anatomy.
So I use both. In addition to the traditional hind-mid-forebrain, I use
Paul MaClean's triune concept, dividing the brain into the Old Reptilian
Brain (hind brain+midbrain+diencephalon), Old Mammalian Brain (limbic
system) and New Mammalian Brain (neocortex).
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