The Primate Brain

Author : Michel A. Hofman,Dean Falk
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780444538604

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Evolution of the Primate Brain by Michel A. Hofman,Dean Falk Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
ISBN : LCCN:73095612

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The Primate Brain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Robert Noback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Brain
ISBN : UOM:39015060900134

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The Primate Brain by Charles Robert Noback Pdf

Author : Este Armstrong,Dean Falk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468441482

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Primate Brain Evolution by Este Armstrong,Dean Falk Pdf

Given the past decade's explosion of neurobiological and paleontologi cal data and their increasingly sophisticated analyses, interdisciplinary syntheses between these two broad disciplines are of value and interest to many different scientists. The collected papers of this volume will appeal to students of primate and hominid evolution, neuroscientists, sociobiolo gists, and other behaviorists who seek a better understanding of the substrates of primate, including human, behavior. Each species of living primates represents an endpoint in evolution, but comparative neurologists can produce approximate evolutionary se quences by careful analyses of representative series. Because nervous tissue does not fossilize, only a comparison of structures and functions among extant primates can be used to investigate the fine details of primate bra~n evolution. Paleoneurologists, who directly examine the fossil record via endocasts or cranial capacities of fossil skulls, can best provide information about gross details, such as changes in brain size or sulcal patterns, and determine when they occurred. Physical anthropologists and paleontologists have traditionally relied more on paleoneurology, whereas neuroscientists and psychologists have relied more on comparative neurology. This division has been a detriment to the advancement of these fields and to the conceptual bases of primate brain evolution. Both methods are important and a synthesis is desirable. To this end, two symposia were held in 1980--one at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthro pologists in Niagara Falls, U. S. A. , and one at the precongressional meeting of the International Primatological Society in Torino, Italy.

Author : Dean Falk,Kathleen R. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521642712

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Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex by Dean Falk,Kathleen R. Gibson Pdf

Review of brain evolution in primates including humans.

Author : Cornelius Joseph Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015019758617

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External Morphology of the Primate Brain by Cornelius Joseph Connolly Pdf

Author : Floyd E. Bloom,A. Bjorklund,T. Hokfelt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080539505

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The Primate Nervous System by Floyd E. Bloom,A. Bjorklund,T. Hokfelt Pdf

This volume is a new, timely and fitting extension to the Handbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy, focussing on the neurochemical circuitry of the primate brain. The book will compliment the growing efforts to apply the analytical strategies of chemical neuroanatomy to the primate brain. The goal of this volume is to develop a broad-based coverage of human and non-human primate chemical neuroanatomic details together within a volume in which details on transmitters and systems can be appreciated. The eight comprehensive chapters that comprise this volume deal with large global concepts and datasets which not only create an initial coverage of the entire primate neuraxis, but also capture useful points of information on the chemical neuranatomy of the primate nervous system. An excellent, informative book, and a welcome addition to the sparse literature in this field.

Author : Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Brain
ISBN : 0262042231

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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain by Stanislas Dehaene Pdf

Leaders in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience discuss patterns of convergence and divergence seen in studies of human and nonhuman primate brains. The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of convergence and divergence in primate cortical organization and function. Several chapters examine the use of modern technologies to study primate brains, analyzing the potentials and the limitations of neuroimaging as well as genetic and computational approaches. These methods, which can be applied identically across different species of primates, help to highlight the paradox of nonlinear primate evolution--the fact that major changes in brain size and functional complexity resulted from small changes in the genome. Other chapters identify plausible analogs or homologs in nonhuman primates for such human cognitive functions as arithmetic, reading, theory of mind, and altruism; examine the role of parietofrontal circuits in the production and comprehension of actions; analyze the contributions of the prefrontal and cingulate cortices to cognitive control; and explore to what extent visual recognition and visual attention are related in humans and other primates. The Fyssen Foundation is dedicated to encouraging scientific inquiry into the cognitive mechanisms that underlie animal and human behavior and has long sponsored symposia on topics of central importance to the cognitive sciences.

Author : Richard F. Martin,Douglas M. Bowden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Brain
ISBN : OCLC:255901216

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Template Atlas of the Primate Brain by Richard F. Martin,Douglas M. Bowden Pdf

Author : Marcus Johannes Naumer,Jochen Kaiser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441956156

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Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain by Marcus Johannes Naumer,Jochen Kaiser Pdf

It should come as no surprise to those interested in sensory processes that its research history is among the longest and richest of the many systematic efforts to understand how our bodies function. The continuing obsession with sensory systems is as much a re?ection of the fundamental need to understand how we experience the physical world as it is to understand how we become who we are based on those very experiences. The senses function as both portal and teacher, and their individual and collective properties have fascinated scientists and philosophers for millennia. In this context, the attention directed toward specifying their properties on a sense-by-sense basis that dominated sensory research in the 20th century seems a prelude to our current preoccupation with how they function in concert. Nevertheless, it was the concentrated effort on the operational principles of in- vidual senses that provided the depth of understanding necessary to inform current efforts to reveal how they act cooperatively. We know that the information provided by any individual sensory modality is not always veridical, but is subject to a myriad of modality-speci?c distortions. Thus, the brain’s ability to compare across the senses and to integrate the information they provide is not only a way to examine the accuracy of any individual sensory channel but also a way to enhance the collective information they make available to the brain.

Author : Jon H. Kaas,Christine E. Collins
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780203507599

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The Primate Visual System by Jon H. Kaas,Christine E. Collins Pdf

The last 20 years of research have been marked by exceptional progress in understanding the organization and functions of the primate visual system. This understanding has been based on the wide application of traditional and newly emerging methods for identifying the functionally significant subdivisions of the system, their interconnections, the

Author : T. Hokfelt,A. Bjorklund,Floyd E. Bloom
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780080539485

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The Primate Nervous System, Part II by T. Hokfelt,A. Bjorklund,Floyd E. Bloom Pdf

This volume is the second in the planned coverage of the neurochemical circuitry of the primate central nervous system. While this volume contains only two chapters, their topics and the extraordinarily comprehensive coverage with which the authors have dealt with their topics, will nevertheless contribute equal amounts of knowledge, wisdom, and opportunities for future research extensions as have every volume in this unique series. As such, these chapters extend the goals of this primate series to develop a broad coverage of human and non-human primate chemical neuroanatomic details in a volume which makes clear the known and desirable appreciation for differences between and among subsets of primate brains.The first chapter covers the primate thalamus with equal emphases on new world, old world, pro-simian and human anatomic details and their differences. The second undertakes a comparably comprehensive examination of one of the most intensively studied regions of the primate brain, namely the primate visual cortex. While much has been studied, both chapters also reveal how much remains for future efforts in these enormously important regions which are the archetypes of primate sub-cortical and cortical function.

Author : Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262333207

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The Human Advantage by Suzana Herculano-Houzel Pdf

Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking. Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals, but not because we are evolutionary outliers. The human brain was not singled out to become amazing in its own exclusive way, and it never stopped being a primate brain. If we are not an exception to the rules of evolution, then what is the source of the human advantage? Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking. Because we are primates, ingesting more calories in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex—the part of the brain responsible for finding patterns, reasoning, developing technology, and passing it on through culture. Herculano-Houzel shows us how she came to these conclusions—making “brain soup” to determine the number of neurons in the brain, for example, and bringing animal brains in a suitcase through customs. The Human Advantage is an engaging and original look at how we became remarkable without ever being special.

Author : Richard F. Martin,Douglas M. Bowden
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Brain
ISBN : 044450415X

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Primate Brain Maps by Richard F. Martin,Douglas M. Bowden Pdf

Primate Brain Maps is a major new publication for the neurosciences. Published as a hard-cover book with accompanying CD-ROM, it will not only be an invaluable tool and reference work for everyone working in primate brain research, but also a unique source of information for all those in the fields of neuroanatomy and neuroinformatics. Features include: Book A history of primate brain atlases from Serres (1824) to Paxinos et al. (1999), and a thorough survey of the 30 most comprehensive primate brain atlases of the twentieth century, from tree shrew to chimpanzee. Methods and nomenclature (NeuroNamestrade;) used in the preparation of Primate Brain Maps . 58 labelled coronal sections at 1mm intervals from the brain of Macaca fascicularis , with photomicrographs of their associated Nissl-stains. 4 labelled maps of the cortical surface. Quantitative comparison of the size and variation of subcortical structures of the macaques and other primate species as represented in published stereotaxic atlases, and applicability of Primate Brain Maps to different macaques and other primate species. How to use the atlas templates provided on the CD-ROM for mapping data. Structure and abbreviation indices. CD-ROM The 58 coronal sections available as unlabelled template files in eps format (two sets - landmark and boundary), for downloading and use in mapping primate neuroanatomical data. The four cortical surface maps, and views of the major sulci opened, available as template files in eps format for download and mapping onto. NeuroNamestrade; a fully searchable database of over 7000 synonyms for over 1400 neuroanatomical structures found in humans, other primates and rats, and a hierarchy of some 350 volumetric structures designed to be used as a skeleton for digital data management in spreadsheets or 2- and 3-D spatial environments - all linked to a fully labelled version of the atlas. A unique library of over 500 Nissl, myelin, frozen coronal and MRI images of the macaque brain - all linked to their nearest appropriate labelled atlas map.

Author : George Paxinos,Michael Petrides,Henry C. Evrard
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128158531

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The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates by George Paxinos,Michael Petrides,Henry C. Evrard Pdf

Paxinos and Petrides' The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive and accurate atlas of the monkey brain currently available. The fourth edition of this classic book will be a complete revision, featuring many improvements and upgrades. Containing coronal diagrams and accompanying photographic plates spaced at 120 μm intervals, this atlas follows the same nomenclature and abbreviations conventions as the mouse, rat, chicken, and human brain atlases published under George Paxinos’ leadership. This atlas is suitable for researchers who work with both monkeys and humans. Constructed by the established leaders in neuroanatomical atlas development, the new edition will again be the indispensable resource for all scientists working on the primate nervous system. 141 completely revised coronal diagrams and accompanying colour photographic plates spaced at approximately 120 μm intervals 60 colour photographic coronal plates of SMI immunoreactivity with completely revised delineations Includes MR images at approximately the same levels as the coronal diagrams Follows the same nomenclature and abbreviations as the mouse, rat, chicken, marmoset and human brain atlases, with indications of correspondence to alternative macaque nomenclatures This atlas was used for the delineation and nomenclature of MRI-based macaque brain atlases for neuroimaging analyses, including the SARM