What Are Different Brains Made Of?
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What Are Different Brains Made Of?
The brain is the most complex organ that ever evolved. The brain controls important functions in the body like keeping your heartbeat and your breathing normal. It controls the movement of your eyes across the page as you read this, it makes sense of the ink on the page to form words, and it links these words with concepts in your memory and makes new concepts as you learn. And the brain was al...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers for Young Minds
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2296-6846
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2017.00021