This review summarizes early human motor development. From early fetal age motor
behavior is based on spontaneous neural activity: activity of networks in the brainstem and …

To understand the emergence of human higher cognition, we must understand its biological
substrate—the cerebral cortex, which considers itself the crowning achievement of evolution …

The enlargement and species-specific elaboration of the cerebral neocortex during
evolution holds the secret to the mental abilities of humans; however, the genetic origin and …

The ability to encode and retrieve our daily personal experiences, called episodic memory,
is supported by the circuitry of the medial temporal lobe (MTL), including the hippocampus …

At every moment, the natural world presents animals with two fundamental pragmatic
problems: selection between actions that are currently possible and specification of the …

The prefrontal cortex is critical to many cognitive abilities that are considered particularly
human, and forms a large part of a neural system crucial for normal socio-emotional and …

Evolution of animal morphology, physiology and behaviour is shaped by the selective
pressures to which they are subject. Some selective pressures act to increase the benefits …

Human higher cognition is attributed to the evolutionary expansion and elaboration of the
human cerebral cortex. However, the genetic mechanisms contributing to these …

Abstract In 1970 the Boulder Committee described the basic principles of the development
of the CNS, derived from observations on the human embryonic cerebrum. Since then …

One of the most specific but also challenging properties of the brain is its topographic
organization into distinct modules or cortical areas. In this paper, we first review the concept …