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It's the absolute number of cortical neurons, not the size of the brain. "Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective o
by kanzure 4y ago
It's the absolute number of cortical neurons, not the size of the brain.
"Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size" https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05976.x https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-...
"No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1610178113 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1610178113
"The human brain in numbers: A linearly scaled-up primate brain" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/
"The elephant brain in numbers" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2014.00046/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2014.0004...
- bpodgursky 4y agoYeah, I don't think that's in contrast to what I said. Neural architectures are very similar between closely related species, and differ wildly between birds and whales.