Brain size and number of neurons: An exercise in synthetic neuroanatomy

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-77

  Braitenberg, Valentino ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allometric relations; Brain volume; Comparative neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ALLOMETRIC RELATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN VOLUME; COMPARATIVE NEUROANATOMY; COMPLETE SETS; FIBER LENGTH; MODEL I; NEURONAL NETWORKS; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONS; SQUARE-ROOT;

BRAIN;

ALLOMETRY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMAL; MODEL; MONKEY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0035080075     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008920127052     Document Type: Article

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