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The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain

The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped cerebral cortex that represents over 80% of brain mass, and purportedly containing 100 billion neurons and 10× more glial ce...

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Autor principal: Herculano-Houzel, Suzana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19915731
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.09.031.2009