RT Book, Section A1 Kandel, Eric R. A1 Koester, John D. A1 Mack, Sarah H. A1 Siegelbaum, Steven A. SR Print(0) ID 1180639834 T1 Imaging and Behavior T2 Principles of Neural Science, 6e YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259642234 LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180639834 RD 2024/10/09 AB TO EXPLAIN AN ORGANISM’S BEHAVIOR in biological terms, it is necessary to reconcile measures of biological processes (eg, action potentials, blood flow, release of neurotransmitters) with measures of cognitive and motor outputs. Relating biological and behavioral measures is challenging, however. Precise neural measurements and invasive techniques are possible in nonhuman animals, but many of these species have a relatively constrained behavioral repertory. Moreover, it is far more difficult to directly measure or invasively manipulate neural activity in healthy humans, the species with the most advanced and varied behavior. Thus, a central effort of modern neuroscience has been to develop new methods for obtaining precise biological measures from the human brain and for modeling human behaviors in nonhuman animals.