Describe one debate that has been historically important in the field of behavioral neuroscience, including the sides of the debate.
What will be an ideal response?
Three historically important debates have been the mind-brain (or mind-body problem), the localization versus equipotentiality debate, and the nature versus nurture debate. On one side of the mind-brain problem is the idea that the mind is the product of the brain, and thus is physical, a position called materialistic monism. The other side of this debate states that the mind is not physical and is separate from the brain, a position called dualism. The nature of the mind has been at the center of that debate. The debate regarding localization and equipotentiality centered on whether specific functions could be tied to specific (localized) brain areas or if those functions were a result of the brain as a whole (equipotentiality). The nature versus nurture debate asks about the relative contributions of heredity (nature) and environment (nurture) in shaping our behavior.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word