Evidence for expansion of the precuneus in human evolution

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1053-1060

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a   Preuss, Todd M ^b,c   Chen, Xu ^b,d   Rilling, James K ^b,c,d  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Translational Social Neuroscience   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary neuroanatomy; Human evolution; Morphometrics; Parietal lobes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALEONTOLOGY; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARIETAL LOBE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84952662171     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1172-y     Document Type: Article

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