A conserved pattern of differential expansion of cortical areas in simian primates

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 33; no. 38; pp. 15120 - 15125
• Main Authors: Chaplin, Tristan A, Yu, Hsin-Hao, Soares, Juliana G M, Gattass, Ricardo, Rosa, Marcello G P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 18.09.2013
• Subjects: Animals; Brain Mapping; Brief Communications; Callithrix; Cebus; Cerebral Cortex - anatomy & histology; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Female; Macaca; Male; Models, Neurological; Primates; Primates - anatomy & histology

The layout of areas in the cerebral cortex of different primates is quite similar, despite significant variations in brain size. However, it is clear that larger brains are not simply scaled up versions of smaller brains: some regions of the cortex are disproportionately large in larger species. It...