Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Evolution of prefrontal cortex

TM Preuss, SP Wise - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) evolved at different times. Agranular parts of the
PFC emerged in early mammals, and rodents, primates, and other modern mammals share …

Whole-brain comparison of rodent and human brains using spatial transcriptomics

A Beauchamp, Y Yee, BC Darwin, A Raznahan… - elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
The ever-increasing use of mouse models in preclinical neuroscience research calls for an
improvement in the methods used to translate findings between mouse and human brains …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-species functional alignment reveals evolutionary hierarchy within the connectome

T Xu, KH Nenning, E Schwartz, SJ Hong, JT Vogelstein… - Neuroimage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Evolution provides an important window into how cortical organization shapes function and
vice versa. The complex mosaic of changes in brain morphology and functional organization …

Genetic and phylogenetic uncoupling of structure and function in human transmodal cortex

SL Valk, T Xu, C Paquola, B Park… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Brain structure scaffolds intrinsic function, supporting cognition and ultimately behavioral
flexibility. However, it remains unclear how a static, genetically controlled architecture …

[HTML][HTML] XTRACT-Standardised protocols for automated tractography in the human and macaque brain

S Warrington, KL Bryant, AA Khrapitchev, J Sallet… - Neuroimage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
We present a new software package with a library of standardised tractography protocols
devised for the robust automated extraction of white matter tracts both in the human and the …

Aligning individual brains with fused unbalanced Gromov Wasserstein

A Thual, QH Tran, T Zemskova… - Advances in neural …, 2022‏ - proceedings.neurips.cc
Individual brains vary in both anatomy and functional organization, even within a given
species. Inter-individual variability is a major impediment when trying to draw generalizable …

The nonhuman primate neuroimaging and neuroanatomy project

T Hayashi, Y Hou, MF Glasser, JA Autio, K Knoblauch… - Neuroimage, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Multi-modal neuroimaging projects such as the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and UK
Biobank are advancing our understanding of human brain architecture, function …

Heritability and cross-species comparisons of human cortical functional organization asymmetry

B Wan, Ş Bayrak, T Xu, HL Schaare, RAI Bethlehem… - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
The human cerebral cortex is symmetrically organized along large-scale axes but also
presents inter-hemispheric differences in structure and function. The quantified contralateral …

Fundamental functional differences between gyri and sulci: implications for brain function, cognition, and behavior

X Jiang, T Zhang, S Zhang, KM Kendrick… - …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Folding of the cerebral cortex is a prominent characteristic of mammalian brains. Alterations
or deficits in cortical folding are strongly correlated with abnormal brain function, cognition …