The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain
The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped cerebral cortex that represents over 80% of brain mass, and purportedly containing 100 billion neurons and 10x more glial ce...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-11-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.031.2009/full |