Human frontal lobes are not relatively large

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

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 9001-9006

  Barton, Robert A ^a   Venditti, Chris ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Prefrontal cortex; Primates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

COGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMETRY; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE NET; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 84878451568     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215723110     Document Type: Article

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