ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between brain and mind, presents methods of brain imaging and mentions briefly the biochemical basis of mental processes, and shows that how biologists and psychologists determine to what degree behavior and mental capacities are inherited. Mind-brain dualism means that the mind and the brain are two separate entities. Fear and intentions belong to the mind, activation of the amygdala or areas that control muscles to the brain. The drawback of event-related potential is its limited spatial resolution, so that it is difficult to determine the location of electrical activity. Cognitive psychologists had a hard time to come up with experimental techniques to examine the mind. The environment may influence the expression of the behavior that has been genetically transmitted. Traits – which is predispositions to behave in a characteristic way – are transmitted from one generation to the next by genes, which are the carriers of hereditary information.
