Eratum to: Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size (Frontiers in Neuroanatomy) 8, 2014, 77, (10.3389/fnana.2014.00077));Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b   Manger, Paul R ^c   Kaas, Jon H ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain size; Cell size; Cortical expansion; Evolution; Numbers of neurons

Indexed keywords

AFROTHERIA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCALING; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84905917446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00038     Document Type: Erratum

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