Evolution of the Primate Brain

From Neuron to Behavior

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

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.

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-26
Mått:191 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:1 170 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Progress in Brain Research
Antal sidor:496
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780444538604

Utforska kategorier

Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Michel A. Hofman is at Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands

Innehållsförteckning

Section I. Introduction1. From tetrapods to primates: conserved developmental mechanisms in diverging ecological adaptations F. Aboitiz and J.F. Montiel (Santiago, Chile)Section II. Genes and Development2. Genetic correlates of the evolving primate brainE.J. Vallender (Southborough, MA, USA)3. Cerebral cortical development in rodents and primatesZ. Molnár and G. Clowry (Oxford, UK)4. Embracing covariation in brain evolution: large brains,extended development and flexible primate social systemsC.J. Charvet and B.L. Finlay (Ithaca, NY, USA)Section III. Comparative Neuroanatomy5. The evolution of neocortex in primatesJ.H. Kaas (Nashville, TN, USA)6. Lateralization of the human brainM.C. Corballis (Auckland, New Zealand)7. The insular cortex: a reviewR. Nieuwenhuys (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)8. The missing link: the evolution of the primate cerebellumC.E. MacLeod (Vancouver, BC, Canada)Section IV. Human Brain Evolution9. Human prefrontal cortex: evolution, developmentand pathologyK. Teffer and K. Semendeferi (La Jolla, CA, USA)10. Minicolumn size and human cortex D.P. Buxhoeveden (Columbia, SC, USA)11. Human brain evolution writ large and small. C.C. Sherwood, A.L. Bauernfeind, S. Bianchi,M.A. Raghanti and P.R. Hof (Washington, DC, USA)12. Hominin paleoneurology: where are we now?D. Falk (Santa Fe, NM, USA)13. Evolution of hominin cranial ontogenyC.P.E. Zollikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)14. Hominins and the emergence of the modern human brainA.A. de Sousa and E. Cunha (Coimbra, Portugal)Section V. Theories of Neural Organization15. Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantageS. Herculano-Houzel (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)16. Self-organization and interareal networks in the primate cortexH. Kennedy and C. Dehay (Bron, France)17. Neural wiring optimizationC. Cherniak (College Park, MD, USA)18. Design principles of the human brain: an evolutionary perspectiveM.A. Hofman (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Sections VI. Cognition: From Neuron to Behavior19. Primate encephalizationL. Lefebvre (Montreal, QC, Canada)20. Evolution of brain and intelligence in primatesG. Roth and U. Dicke (Bremen, Germany)21. Evolution of human emotion: a view through fearJ.E. LeDoux (New York, NY, USA)22. Evolution of brain and languageP.T. Schoenemann (Bloomington, IN, USA)