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By Richard Passingham
The psychological hole among guy and ape is significant. because the mind is the organ of the brain, we needs to imagine that all through evolution there have been alterations within the mind that created this hole. This booklet is a look for these alterations. Written in a full of life kind, the booklet is a far-reaching and intriguing quest for these issues that make people unique.
The psychological hole --
The anatomy of the mind --
Perception --
Manual ability --
Speech and language --
Cerebral dominance --
Decision-making and making plans --
Reasoning --
Social cognition.
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Microstructure The previous section considered the extrinsic connections of particular cyto-architectonic Page 14 of 21 The anatomy of the brain areas, but the functions of an area are also determined by its intrinsic connections. Elston (2003) argues that it is the differences in intrinsic connectivity that accounts for the fact that there is ‘set’ activity in the infero-temporal cortex, that is persistent activity rather than the phasic activity that is characteristic of the primary visual cortex.
The result is that connections from posterior regions to the more Page 10 of 21 The anatomy of the brain anterior prefrontal cortex are severely disrupted. There is the further advantage that peaks can be restricted to specific cyto-architectonic areas. These divisions should be reliable since they are based on quantitative data. 2005). (2005) identify area 44 in the macaque brain. Though area 44 has now been identified in the brains of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) (Simonyan and Jurgens 2002), macaque monkeys, chimpanzees and humans, no data are available that would allow a comparison of its relative size in the different species.
In addition to brain size, the neocortex size as well as the anatomy of the prefrontal and parietal cortices, and the Wernicke's and Broca's areas have also been examined to determine how the connectional fingerprints — or the connections between the functions of these anatomical areas — translate into functional fingerprints — or the response of the brain to different stimuli in different situations. Subsequent chapters investigate the consequences for behaviour of the anatomical specializations of the human brain.