What's the fuss over human frontal lobe evolution?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 432-433

  Sherwood, Chet C ^a   Smaers, Jeroen B ^b,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFFS; FRONTAL LOBES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN;

ALLOMETRY; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84882839458     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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