The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12593-12598

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a   Collins, Christine E ^b   Wong, Peiyan ^b   Kaas, Jon H ^b   Lent, Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Cortical surface; Number of neurons; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDENTIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; TUPAIA;

EID: 50449103288     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805417105     Document Type: Article

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