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Neuroscience

Behavioural neuroscience focuses on understanding brain processes and other physiological processes that are involved in our behaviour, sensory experience, thoughts, and emotions.

Many neuroscientists study animals in order to understand the basic processes that underlie our experience. Others use neuroimaging techniques to study humans.

Donald Hebb was an early Canadian neuroscientist who proposed that changes in the neurons in our brains underlie learning and memory.

Practice: Neuroscience

A behavioural neuroscientist would study: