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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 90-97Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.10.008
Keywords
Comparative neuroscience; Brain architecture; Connectivity; Primate; Connectivity fingerprint
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- VIDI of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research NWO [452-13-015]
- British Academy
- European Union [MC-IEF-623513]
- Gustav Born Scholarship
- Christopher Welch Scholarship
- Wellcome Trust
- Medical Research Council [G0902373, G0700399] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0700399, G0902373] Funding Source: UKRI
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The great promise of comparative neuroscience is to understand why brains differ by investigating the relations between variations in the organization of different brains, their evolutionary history, and their current ecological niche. For this approach to be successful, the organization of different brains needs to be quantifiable. Here, we present an approach to formally comparing the connectivity of different cortical areas across different brains. We exploit the fact that cortical regions can be characterized by the unique pattern of connectivity, the so-called connectivity fingerprint. By comparing connectivity fingerprints between cortical areas in the human and non-human primate brain we can identify between-species homologs, but also illustrate that is driving differences between species. We illustrate the approach by comparing the organization of the frontal cortex between humans and macaques, showing general similarities combined with some differences in the lateral frontal pole. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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