Small Brain, Large Brain - A Quest for Nature's scale-up Rules

Journal of Brain Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-347

  Prothero, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Cortical folding; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NEURONS;

EID: 0347174770     PISSN: 09448160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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