Scalable architecture in mammalian brains

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 189-193

  Clark, Damon A ^a   Mitra, Partha P ^b   Wang, Samuel S H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; SIZE DETERMINATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

TOTAL BRAIN VOLUME;

NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; MONKEY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; DATABASES; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; REFERENCE VALUES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMO; LEMURIDAE; LORIDAE; MAMMALIA; PLATYRRHINI; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0035837421     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075564     Document Type: Article

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