Frontal white matter volume is associated with brain enlargement and higher structural connectivity in anthropoid primates.

Previous research has indicated the importance of the frontal lobe and its 'executive' connections to other brain structures as crucial in explaining primate neocortical adaptations. However, a representative sample of volumetric measurements of frontal connective tissue (white matter) has...

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Main Authors: Jeroen Bert Smaers, Axel Schleicher, Karl Zilles, Lucio Vinicius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2817750?pdf=render