The evolution of the frontal lobes: A volumetric analysis based on three-dimensional reconstructions of magnetic resonance scans of human and ape brains

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 375-388

  Semendeferi, Katerina ^a,b   Damasio, Hanna ^a   Frank, Randall ^a   Van Hoesen, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; Hominid cognition; Hominoid brain

Indexed keywords

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; HYLOBATES SP.; MACACA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; GORILLA; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; MACACA; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; MACACA MULATTA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031111903     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0099     Document Type: Article

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