Imagine That You Have Shrunk to Microscopic Size and That

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Essay

Imagine that you have shrunk to microscopic size and that you are travelling through the brain. As you stand on top of the brain stem and look toward the back part of the brain, you see a structure about the size of a small fist that looks like a "little brain." What structure of the brain have you encountered? What function is associated with this "lesser brain"?

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Definitions:

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