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SUBMITTER: Marhounova L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6772110 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marhounová Lucie L Kotrschal Alexander A Kverková Kristina K Kolm Niclas N Němec Pavel P
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20190801 9
Neurons are the basic computational units of the brain, but brain size is the predominant surrogate measure of brain functional capacity in comparative and cognitive neuroscience. This approach is based on the assumption that larger brains harbor higher numbers of neurons and their connections, and therefore have a higher information-processing capacity. However, recent studies have shown that brain mass may be less strongly correlated with neuron counts than previously thought. Till now, no exp ...[more]