Overall brain size, and not encephalization quotient, best predicts cognitive ability across non-human primates

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-124

  Deaner, Robert O ^a   Isler, Karin ^b   Burkart, Judith ^b   Van Schaik, Carel ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain size; Cognitive ability; Encephalization quotient; Intelligence; Neocortex ratio; Neuroanatomical measures; Primates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 34547780460     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102973     Document Type: Article

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