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Evolution of the Primate Brain

From Neuron to Behavior

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Elsevier Science | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9780444538604
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Elsevier Science e druk, 2012 9780444538604
Onderdeel van serie Progress in Brain Research
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This volume of Progress in Brain Research provides a synthetic source of information about state-of-the-art research that has important implications for the evolution of the brain and cognition in primates, including humans. This topic requires input from a variety of fields that are developing at an unprecedented pace: genetics, developmental neurobiology, comparative and functional neuroanatomy (at gross and microanatomical levels), quantitative neurobiology related to scaling factors that constrain brain organization and evolution, primate palaeontology (including paleoneurology), paleo-anthropology, comparative psychology, and behavioural evolutionary biology.

Written by internationally-renowned scientists, this timely volume will be of wide interest to students, scholars, science journalists, and a variety of experts who are interested in keeping track of the discoveries that are rapidly emerging about the evolution of the brain and cognition.

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ISBN13:9780444538604
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden

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<p>Section I. Introduction</p> <p>1. From tetrapods to primates: conserved developmental mechanisms in diverging ecological adaptations </p> <p>F. Aboitiz<SUP> </SUP>and J.F. Montiel (Santiago, Chile)</p> <p>Section II. Genes and Development</p> <p>2. Genetic correlates of the evolving primate brain</p> <p>E.J. Vallender (Southborough, MA, USA)</p> <p>3. Cerebral cortical development in rodents and primates</p> <p>Z. Molnár and G. Clowry (Oxford, UK)</p> <p>4. Embracing covariation in brain evolution: large brains,</p> <p>extended development and flexible primate social systems</p> <p>C.J. Charvet and B.L. Finlay (Ithaca, NY, USA)</p> <p>Section III. Comparative Neuroanatomy</p> <p>5. The evolution of neocortex in primates</p> <p>J.H. Kaas (Nashville, TN, USA)</p> <p>6. Lateralization of the human brain</p> <p>M.C. Corballis (Auckland, New Zealand)</p> <p>7. The insular cortex: a review</p> <p>R. Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</p> <p>8. The missing link: the evolution of the primate cerebellum</p> <p>C.E. MacLeod (Vancouver, BC, Canada)</p> <p>Section IV. Human Brain Evolution</p> <p>9. Human prefrontal cortex: evolution, development</p> <p>and pathology</p> <p>K. Teffer and K. Semendeferi (La Jolla, CA, USA)</p> <p>10. Minicolumn size and human cortex </p> <p>D.P. Buxhoeveden (Columbia, SC, USA)</p> <p>11. Human brain evolution writ large and small. </p> <p>C.C. Sherwood, A.L. Bauernfeind, S. Bianchi,</p> <p>M.A. Raghanti and P.R. Hof (Washington, DC, USA)</p> <p>12. Hominin paleoneurology: where are we now?</p> <p>D. Falk (Santa Fe, NM, USA)</p> <p>13. Evolution of hominin cranial ontogeny</p> <p>C.P.E. Zollikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)</p> <p>14. Hominins and the emergence of the modern human brain</p> <p>A.A. de Sousa and E. Cunha (Coimbra, Portugal)</p> <p>Section V. Theories of Neural Organization</p> <p>15. Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage</p> <p>S. Herculano-Houzel (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)</p> <p>16. Self-organization and interareal networks in the primate cortex</p> <p>H. Kennedy and C. Dehay (Bron, France)</p> <p>17. Neural wiring optimization</p> <p>C. Cherniak (College Park, MD, USA)</p> <p>18. Design principles of the human brain: an evolutionary perspective</p> <p>M.A. Hofman (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</p> <p>Sections VI. Cognition: From Neuron to Behavior</p> <p>19. Primate encephalization</p> <p>L. Lefebvre (Montreal, QC, Canada)</p> <p>20. Evolution of brain and intelligence in primates</p> <p>G. Roth and U. Dicke (Bremen, Germany)</p> <p>21. Evolution of human emotion: a view through fear</p> <p>J.E. LeDoux (New York, NY, USA)</p> <p>22. Evolution of brain and language</p> <p>P.T. Schoenemann (Bloomington, IN, USA) </p>

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