Primate comparative neuroscience using magnetic resonance imaging: Promises and challenges

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Mars, Rogier B ^a,b   Neubert, Franz Xaver ^a   Verhagen, Lennart ^a,c   Sallet, Je´roˆme ^a   Miller, Karla L ^b   Dunbar, Robin I M ^a   Barton, Robert A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Diffusion MRI; MRI; Neuroecology; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; PRIMATE MODEL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON;

EID: 84907225441     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00298     Document Type: Review

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