L Krubitzer - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The neocortex is the part of the brain that is involved in perception, cognition, and volitional motor control. In mammals it is a highly dynamic structure that has been dramatically altered …
R Suárez, AC Halley - Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2022 - karger.com
For millennia, naturalists have marveled at the question of how complex traits originate and diversify. From the notion of development as a series of transformations beyond “pre-formed” …
I have written this book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as some more senior scientists, who already know something about the brain but want a deeper …
EJ Vallender - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2013 - karger.com
Evolution operates through intraspecific variation. It takes the genetic variation responsible for the differences that we see between individuals and drives them to fixation, whether by …
J Stiles - Progress in Brain Research, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, developmental neurobiologists have made tremendous progress in defining basic principles of brain development. This work has changed the way …
Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from …
SJ Karlen, L Krubitzer - Percept, Decision, Action: Bridging the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The neocortex is that portion of the brain that is involved in volitional motor control, perception, cognition and a number of other complex behaviours exhibited by mammals …
J Cesario, DJ Johnson… - Current Directions in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved,“newer” brain structures were added over existing “older” brain structures, and (b) …
Human evolution has been marked by a striking increase in total brain volume relative to body size. While a prominent and characteristic feature of this volumetric shift has been the …