Part one of term paper
" brain" Critically evaluate this statement. The question of how animals and humans navigate is a fundamental research problem upon which there has been much experimentation and debate, and so it is necessary to refine the title to a specific point. As Tolman (1948) established that rats can solve spatial problems too complex for a purely s ...

Part two of term paper
... For the purpose of simplicity this essay will concern itself with only the brain of a rat. This essay will thus discuss the evolution of relevant behaviourist and neurophysiological theories, the most important being O'Keefe (1991); Muller, Kubie, Bostock, Taube and Quirk (1991); and Rolls (1991). The behaviourist theories proposed that a reward or aversive object/event will motivate a rat to move towards or away from the location along a reward gradient, and this has been shown to be the ca ...