Animal Models in the study on Brain and Behaviour - Agaisnt

LeDoux and Eric Kandel case studies

Why case studies aren't representative of humans

Methods of extrapolating animal data to human results

research goal to find most basic explanations for complex behaviour

reductionist methods in animals

cannot extrapolate simple animal behaviour to humans , especially on complex systems such as behaviour

LeDoux, Eric Kandel

Casual Analogical Model (CAM)

LeDoux: animals don't have consciousness, research of fear cannot translate directly to humans (fear vs threat)

Eric Kandel: how is memory "scaled up" to human levels of cognition? consciousness? environmental input?

need holistic approach too

ultimately humans and animals are too different in dna, behaviour, environment, cognitive levels to be compared