Hominin paleoneurology. Where are we now?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 195, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-272

  Falk, Dean ^a,b  

^a School of Advanced Research   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain shape; Brain size; Endocast; Lunate sulcus; Neurological reorganization; Paleoneurology; Sulcal patterns

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FOSSIL HOMININ; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84855508845     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53860-4.00012-X     Document Type: Chapter

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