Superior pattern processing is the essence of the evolved human brain

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 AUG, 2014, Pages

  Mattson, Mark P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hippocampus; Language disorders; Neuronal network; Religion and science

Indexed keywords

PSYCHEDELIC AGENT;

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRAWING; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; INVENTION; LANGUAGE; MAGIC; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUPERIOR PATTERN PROCESSING; SUPERSTITION;

EID: 84906346349     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00265     Document Type: Review

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