Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex

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

Volumn 107, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 19008-19013

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b   Mota, Bruno ^a,b   Wong, Peiyan ^d   Kaas, Jon H ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain size; Evolution; Number of neurons; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; BODY SURFACE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COUNT; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDENTIA; SPECIES; WHITE MATTER;

PRIMATES; SCANDENTIA;

EID: 78650505566     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012590107     Document Type: Article

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