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    The reptilian brain controls vital functions like breathing and regulates basic instincts. The limbic brain emerged in mammals and is responsible for emotions, housing structures like the hippocampus and amygdala. The neocortex developed most in primates and humans, enabling advanced skills like language, abstract thought, and culture through structures in the cerebral hemispheres. These three parts of the brain interact through connections that allow them to influence one another.

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    The reptilian brain controls vital functions like breathing and regulates basic instincts. The limbic brain emerged in mammals and is responsible for emotions, housing structures like the hippocampus and amygdala. The neocortex developed most in primates and humans, enabling advanced skills like language, abstract thought, and culture through structures in the cerebral hemispheres. These three parts of the brain interact through connections that allow them to influence one another.

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    The reptilian brain controls vital functions like breathing and regulates basic instincts. The limbic brain emerged in mammals and is responsible for emotions, housing structures like the hippocampus and amygdala. The neocortex developed most in primates and humans, enabling advanced skills like language, abstract thought, and culture through structures in the cerebral hemispheres. These three parts of the brain interact through connections that allow them to influence one another.

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    The reptilian brain, the oldest of the three, controls the body's vital functions such as

    heart rate, breathing, body temperature and balance. Our reptilian brain includes the
    main structures found in a reptile's brain: the brainstem and the cerebellum. The
    reptilian brain is reliable but tends to be somewhat rigid and compulsive.




    The limbic brain emerged in the first mammals. It can record memories of
    behaviours that produced agreeable and disagreeable experiences, so it is
    responsible for what are called emotions in human beings. The main structures of the
    limbic brain are the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus. The limbic
    brain is the seat of the value judgments that we make, often unconsciously, that exert
    such a strong influence on our behaviour.




    The neocortex first assumed importance in primates and culminated in the human
    brain with its two large cerebral hemispheres that play such a dominant role. These
    hemispheres have been responsible for the development of human language,
    abstract thought, imagination, and consciousness. The neocortex is flexible and has
    almost infinite learning abilities. The neocortex is also what has enabled human
    cultures to develop.
    These three parts of the brain do not operate independently of one another. They
    have established numerous interconnections through which they influence one
    another. The neural pathways from the limbic system to the cortex, for example, are
    especially well developed.

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