Chapter 2: Neuroscience and Behavior History of Mind Ancient Conceptions About Mind Plato correctly placed mind in the brain. However, his student Aristotle believed that mind was in the heart. Today, all that is psychological is also biological. Phrenology 1800, Franz Gall theorized that bumps on the skull represented mental abilities. Wrong, but opened the perspective that different parts of the brain controlled different functions. Biological psychologist: studies links btwn biological activity and psychological events. Neural Communication Neurons: billions of interconnected nerve cells => body?s info system We are a biopsycholosocial system. cell -> organ -> system -> individual -> family -> ethnic -> community