Cracking Down on Complexity in the Evolving Brain

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.09.002

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volume 23, Issue 11, November 2019, Pages 908-910

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Louail et al. analyzed the brains of five primate species to determine factors driving size differences. In addition to analyzing the volume of the whole brain, they considered specific brain regions. In doing so, they linked the size of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex with foraging complexity across species.

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Cortex

Biol. Psychiatry

Curr. Opin. Neurobiol.

Viewpoints: dialogues on the functional role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Nat. Neurosci.

The social brain hypothesis

Evol. Anthropol.

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Cracking Down on Complexity in the Evolving Brain