Spatial organization of neurons in the frontal pole sets humans apart from great apes

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1485-1497

  Semendeferi, Katerina ^a,b   Teffer, Kate ^a   Buxhoeveden, Dan P ^c   Park, Min S ^a,d   Bludau, Sebastian ^e   Amunts, Katrin ^e,f   Travis, Katie ^a,g   Buckwalter, Joseph ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chimpanzee; evolution; minicolumn; primate; pyramidal neuron

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959480341     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq191     Document Type: Article

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