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This is to provide a good eagle-eye view of the major divisions of the brain. The brain really is studied like one big map. This is mainly because we assume that different parts of the brain do different things, so it follows that we can study the brain in parts. Though, sometimes our coarse map doesn’t separate functions very well.
Nevertheless, we divide the brain up in the following way:
These refer to the following structures in the brain:
