Orbital prefrontal cortex volume predicts social network size: an imaging study of individual differences in humans.

The social brain hypothesis, an explanation for the unusually large brains of primates, posits that the size of social group typical of a species is directly related to the volume of its neocortex. To test whether this hypothesis also applies at the within-species level, we applied the Cavalieri met...

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Auteurs principaux: Powell, J, Lewis, P, Roberts, N, García-Fiñana, M, Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Langue:English
Publié: 2012