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==Relationship to other fields of psychology and biology== In many cases, humans may serve as experimental subjects in behavioral neuroscience experiments; however, a great deal of the experimental literature in behavioral neuroscience comes from the study of non-human species, most frequently rats, mice, and monkeys. As a result, a critical assumption in behavioral neuroscience is that organisms share biological and behavioral similarities, enough to permit extrapolations across species. This allies behavioral neuroscience closely with [[comparative psychology]], [[ethology]], [[evolutionary biology]], and [[neurobiology]]. Behavioral neuroscience also has paradigmatic and methodological similarities to [[neuropsychology]], which relies heavily on the study of the behavior of humans with nervous system dysfunction (i.e., a non-experimentally based biological manipulation). Synonyms for behavioral neuroscience include biopsychology, biological psychology, and psychobiology.<ref name="Breedlove et al 2007">[[Marc Breedlove|S. Marc Breedlove]], [[Mark Rosenzweig (psychologist)|Mark Rosenzweig]] and Neil V. Watson (2007). Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience 6e. Sinauer Associates. {{ISBN|978-0-87893-705-9}}</ref> [[Physiological psychology]] is a subfield of behavioral neuroscience, with an appropriately narrower definition.
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