Sulcal morphology of posteromedial cortex substantially differs between humans and chimpanzees

EH Willbrand, SA Maboudian, JP Kelly… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent studies identify a surprising coupling between evolutionarily new sulci and the
functional organization of human posteromedial cortex (PMC). Yet, no study has compared …

Neuroanatomical and functional dissociations between variably present anterior lateral prefrontal sulci

EH Willbrand, SA Bunge, KS Weiner - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is an evolutionarily expanded region in humans that is
critical for numerous complex functions, many of which are largely hominoid specific …

Development of human lateral prefrontal sulcal morphology and its relation to reasoning performance

EH Willbrand, E Ferrer, SA Bunge… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Previous findings show that the morphology of folds (sulci) of the human cerebral cortex
flatten during postnatal development. However, previous studies did not consider the …

Updating the sulcal landscape of the human lateral parieto-occipital junction provides anatomical, functional, and cognitive insights

EH Willbrand, YH Tsai, T Gagnant, KS Weiner - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent work has uncovered relationships between evolutionarily new small and shallow
cerebral indentations, or sulci, and human behavior. Yet, this relationship remains …

Sulcal variability in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex contributes to variability in reasoning performance among young adults

EH Willbrand, S Jackson, S Chen… - Brain Structure and …, 2024 - Springer
Identifying structure–function correspondences is a major goal among biologists, cognitive
neuroscientists, and brain mappers. Recent studies have identified relationships between …

Ventral temporal and posteromedial sulcal morphology in autism spectrum disorder

JR Benitez, S Kannan, WL Hastings, BJ Parker… - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Two parallel research tracks link the morphology of small and shallow indentations, or sulci,
of the cerebral cortex with functional features of the cortex and human cognition …

Influence of accessory sulci of the frontoparietal operculum on gray matter quantification

MN Vallejo-Azar, L Alba-Ferrara… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The perisylvian region is the cortical core of language and speech. Several
accessory sulci have been described in this area, whose presence could modify the results …

The Chimpanzee Brainnetome Atlas reveals distinct connectivity and gene expression profiles relative to humans

Y Wang, L Cheng, D Li, Y Lu, C Wang, Y Wang, C Gao… - The Innovation, 2025 - cell.com
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are one of humans' closest living relatives, making them the
most directly relevant comparison point for understanding human brain evolution. Zeroing in …

Towards multi-modal, multi-species brain atlases: part two

RB Mars, N Palomero-Gallagher - Brain Structure and Function, 2024 - Springer
Brain Structure and Function brain architecture across species and across development
using the same standardized common space (Bryant et al. 2024; Warrington et al. 2022) …

Cognitive relevance of an evolutionarily new and variable prefrontal structure

EH Willbrand, S Jackson, S Chen, CB Hathaway… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Identifying structural-functional correspondences is a major goal among biologists. In
neurobiology, recent findings identify relationships between performance on cognitive tasks …