Sentences with phrase «human neocortex»

«That's the number of neurons in the entire human neocortex.»

They found that TH was highly expressed in human neocortex and striatum but absent from the neocortex of chimpanzees.

This theory concerns the role of the human neocortex and its associations with the hippocampus and the thalamus in matching sensory inputs to stored memory patterns and how this process leads to predictions of what will happen in the future.

Mushroom bodies are the insect equivalent of the human neocortex, the outer layer of our brain, which handles complex cognition.

Now Allen plans to move onto the big prize: mapping the human neocortex.

A study published in Neuron in February revealed that the variety of fat molecules found in the human neocortex, the brain region responsible for advanced cognitive functions such as language, evolved at an exceptionally fast rate after the human - ape split.

But the human neocortex has accumulated about three times more lipid changes than the chimpanzee cortex has since we split from our common ancestor.

«This suggests to us that there may be a mosaic of cell types in the human neocortex, in which there are cells that originate in the traditional zone and cells produced in the newer zone that intermix in the cortex.

«This discovery has the potential to transform our understanding of the development and evolution of the human neocortex, the most uniquely human part of the central nervous system,» says the senior author of the study, neurologist Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

These results suggest that inhibition of SRGAP2 function by its human - specific paralogs has contributed to the evolution of the human neocortex by slowing the rate of excitatory synapse maturation and allowing the emergence of more spines per pyramidal neuron, which is a critical feature of human pyramidal neurons (Benavides - Piccione et al., 2002).

The remarkable size expansion of the human neocortex is thought to partly arise from a second pool of neural stem cells, called the basal Radial Glial (bRG) cells (Fig. 1).