Evolution amplified processing with temporally dispersed slow neuronal connectivity in primates

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

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19551-19556

  Caminiti, Roberto ^a   Ghaziri, Hassan ^b   Galuske, Ralf ^c   Hof, Patrick R ^d   Innocenti, Giorgio M ^a,e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Axons; Cerebral cortex; Corpus callosum; Information transfer; Interhemispheric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 73349132720     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907655106     Document Type: Article

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