Comparative primate neuroimaging: Insights into human brain evolution

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-55

  Rilling, James K ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Comparative; Evolution; Human; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI); HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); STRUCTURAL CONNECTIVITY;

BRAIN;

APE; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE NEUROIMAGING; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXTREME CAPSULE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HANDEDNESS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LANGUAGE; MACACA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; RESTING METABOLIC RATE; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SYLVIAN FISSURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOOL USE; VISUAL CORTEX; VOCALIZATION; WERNICKE AREA; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84890427340     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.09.013     Document Type: Review

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