Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2013, Pages

  Ventura Antunes, Lissa ^a,b   Mota, Bruno ^a,b   Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GRAY MATTER; GUINEA PIG; GYRUS; HEMISPHERE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RAT; RODENT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84875489133     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2013.00003     Document Type: Article

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