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 …

The cortico-limbo-thalamo-cortical circuits: An update to the original papez circuit of the human limbic system

A Kamali, S Milosavljevic, A Gandhi, KR Lano… - Brain topography, 2023‏ - Springer
The Papez circuit, first proposed by James Papez in 1937, is a circuit believed to control
memory and emotions, composed of the cingulate cortex, entorhinal cortex …

Detailed map** of the complex fiber structure and white matter pathways of the chimpanzee brain

C Eichner, M Paquette, C Müller-Axt, C Bock… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Long-standing questions about human brain evolution may only be resolved through
comparisons with close living evolutionary relatives, such as chimpanzees. This applies in …

[ספר][B] Understanding the prefrontal cortex: selective advantage, connectivity, and neural operations

R Passingham - 2021‏ - books.google.com
A successor to the acclaimed Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex, Understanding the
Prefrontal Cortex presents a careful study of the anatomical connections in this brain region …

A taxonomy of the brain's white matter: twenty-one major tracts for the 21st century

DN Bullock, EA Hayday, MD Grier, W Tang… - Cerebral …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The functional and computational properties of brain areas are determined, in large part, by
their connectivity profiles. Advances in neuroimaging and network neuroscience allow us to …

A common space approach to comparative neuroscience

RB Mars, S Jbabdi… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Comparative neuroscience is entering the era of big data. New high-throughput methods
and data-sharing initiatives have resulted in the availability of large, digital data sets …

Concurrent map** of brain ontogeny and phylogeny within a common space: Standardized tractography and applications

S Warrington, E Thompson, M Bastiani, J Dubois… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Developmental and evolutionary effects on brain organization are complex, yet linked, as
evidenced by the correspondence in cortical area expansion across these vastly different …

Comparing human and chimpanzee temporal lobe neuroanatomy reveals modifications to human language hubs beyond the frontotemporal arcuate fasciculus

J Sierpowska, KL Bryant, N Janssen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The biological foundation for the language-ready brain in the human lineage remains a
debated subject. In humans, the arcuate fasciculus (AF) white matter and the posterior …

Evolutionary neuroanatomical expansion of Broca's region serving a human-specific function

AD Friederici - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
The question concerning the evolution of language is directly linked to the debate on
whether language and action are dependent or not and to what extent Broca's region serves …

Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning

AD Patel - BMC neuroscience, 2024‏ - Springer
Dancing to music is ancient and widespread in human cultures. While dance shows great
cultural diversity, it often involves nonvocal rhythmic movements synchronized to musical …