What is the mammalian dentate gyrus good for?

A Treves, A Tashiro, MP Witter, EI Moser - Neuroscience, 2008 - Elsevier
In the mammalian hippocampus, the dentate gyrus (DG) is characterized by sparse and
powerful unidirectional projections to CA3 pyramidal cells, the so-called mossy fibers (MF) …

Beyond cortex: The evolution of the human brain.

R Chin, SWC Chang, AJ Holmes - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Human evolution has been marked by a striking increase in total brain volume relative to
body size. While a prominent and characteristic feature of this volumetric shift has been the …

[LIVRE][B] Being you: A new science of consciousness

A Seth - 2021 - books.google.com
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best
Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A …

Modeling transformations of neurodevelopmental sequences across mammalian species

AD Workman, CJ Charvet, B Clancy… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
A general model of neural development is derived to fit 18 mammalian species, including
humans, macaques, several rodent species, and six metatherian (marsupial) mammals. The …

[LIVRE][B] The nine-banded armadillo: a natural history

WJ Loughry, CM McDonough - 2024 - books.google.com
The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” This midsize mammal that looks like a
walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating …

From chemotaxis to the cognitive map: the function of olfaction

LF Jacobs - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
A paradox of vertebrate brain evolution is the unexplained variability in the size of the
olfactory bulb (OB), in contrast to other brain regions, which scale predictably with brain size …

When the nose doesn't know: Canine olfactory function associated with health, management, and potential links to microbiota

EK Jenkins, MT DeChant, EB Perry - Frontiers in veterinary science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The impact of health, management, and microbiota on olfactory function in canines has not
been examined in review. The most important characteristic of the detection canine is its …

In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis

N Patzke, MA Spocter, KÆ Karlsson… - Brain Structure and …, 2015 - Springer
The hippocampus is essential for the formation and retrieval of memories and is a crucial
neural structure sub-serving complex cognition. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis, the birth …

A conserved pattern of brain scaling from sharks to primates

KE Yopak, TJ Lisney, RB Darlington… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Several patterns of brain allometry previously observed in mammals have been found to
hold for sharks and related taxa (chondrichthyans) as well. In each clade, the relative size of …

An intrinsic association between olfactory identification and spatial memory in humans

L Dahmani, RM Patel, Y Yang, MM Chakravarty… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
It was recently proposed that olfaction evolved to aid navigation. Consistent with this
hypothesis, olfactory identification and spatial memory are linked to overlap** brain areas …