Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Evolution, as we currently understand it, strikes a delicate balance between animals' ancestral history and adaptations to their current niche. Similarities between species are generally considered inherited from a common ancestor whereas observed differences are considered as more recent evolution. Hence comparing species can provide insights into the evolutionary history. Comparative neuroimaging has recently emerged as a novel subdiscipline, which uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify similarities and differences in brain structure and function across species. Whereas invasive histological and molecular techniques are superior in spatial resolution, they are laborious, post-mortem, and oftentimes limited to specific species. Neuroimaging, by comparison, has the advantages of being applicable across species and allows for fast, whole-brain, repeatable, and multi-modal measurements of the structure and function in living brains and post-mortem tissue. In this review, we summarise the current state of the art in comparative anatomy and function of the brain and gather together the main scientific questions to be explored in the future of the fascinating new field of brain evolution derived from comparative neuroimaging.
Source: NeuroImage
Authors: Patrick Friedrich, Stephanie J. Forkel, Céline Amiez, Joshua H. Balsters, Olivier Coulon, Lingzhong Fan, Alexandros Goulas, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Erin E. Hecht, Katja Heuer, Tianzi Jiang, Robert D. Latzman, Xiaojin Liu, Kep Kee Loh, Kaustubh R. Patil, Alizée Lopez-Persem, Emmanuel Procyk, Jerome Sallet, Roberto Toro, Sam Vickery, Susanne Weis, Charles R. E. Wilson, Ting Xu, Valerio Zerbi, Simon B. Eickoff, Daniel S. Margulies, Rogier B. Mars, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bordeaux, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Sorbonne Université, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, King's College London, Lyon 1 Université, Inserm, Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau, Royal Holloway University of London, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Universität Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Harvard University, Université Paris Cité, Learning Planet Institute, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, The University of Queensland, Georgia State University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Oxford, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Institut du Cerveau, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Wellcome Trust, Institut Pasteur, Gènes, synapses et cognition, Child Mind Institute, ETH Zurich, Centre Neurosciences intégratives et Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, John Radcliffe Hospital, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Language: English
Topic: Primate Behavior and Ecology
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,300
Funders: National Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Directorate for Biological Sciences, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, European Research Council, Horizon 2020
Awards: The comparative connectome, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, G1788360776, G2115380233, Neuroethology of social decisions in primates., Individual variation, plasticity, and learning in human brain evolution, G3820619147, G434337789, Levels of social inference: Investigating the origin of human uniqueness, G4590856093, G6028904001, G6068338964, G6096210152, G651755458, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, IDEXLYON, Impact of selection pressure for social behavior on canid brain evolution, Neuroethology of social decisions in primates.
OpenAlex ID: W3114042407