Evolution of specialized pyramidal neurons in primate visual and motor cortex

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-44

  Sherwood, Chet C ^a,b,c   Lee, Paula W H ^b   Rivara, Claire Bénédicte ^b,d   Holloway, Ralph L ^a,c   Gilissen, Emmanuel P E ^e,f   Simmons, Robert M T ^f   Hakeem, Atiya ^g   Allman, John M ^g   Erwin, Joseph M ^h   Hof, Patrick R ^b,c,h  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NY Consortium in Evol Primatology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^e ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Found Compar and Conserv Biol   (United States)

Author keywords

Betz cell; Brain evolution; Mammals; Meynert cell; Motor cortex; Primates; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STEREOMETRY; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PRIMATES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; TUPAIA; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANTHROPOIDEA; MAMMALIA; MYOXUS; POLIOCEPHALUS; PRIMATES; PTEROPUS; PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS; TUPAIA; TUPAIA GLIS;

EID: 0346035750     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068879     Document Type: Article

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