The human brain is one of the most intricate, complicated, and impressive organs ever to
have evolved. Understanding its evolution requires integrating knowledge from a variety of …

The human inferior parietal lobule (IPL) is a multimodal brain region, subdivided in several
cytoarchitectonic areas which are involved in neural networks related to spatial attention …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

It has long been claimed that Homo sapiens is the only species that has language, but only
recently has it been recognized that humans also have an unusual pattern of growth and …

Biomedical researchers and medical professionals are regularly required to compare a vast
quantity of neurodevelopmental literature obtained from an assortment of mammals whose …

Brain development is underpinned by complex interactions between neural assemblies,
driving structural and functional change. This neuroconstructivism (the notion that neural …

The layout of areas in the cerebral cortex of different primates is quite similar, despite
significant variations in brain size. However, it is clear that larger brains are not simply …

Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of the relation between evolved systems of
folk knowledge and inferential and attributional biases as these relate to academic learning …

Evolution, as we currently understand it, strikes a delicate balance between animals'
ancestral history and adaptations to their current niche. Similarities between species are …

During evolution, the mammalian cerebral cortex has expanded disproportionately to brain
volume. As a consequence, most mammals with large brains have profusely convoluted …