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Article Dans Une Revue NeuroImage Année : 2021

Imaging evolution of the primate brain: the next frontier?

Joshua Balsters
Olivier Coulon
Erin Hecht
  • Fonction : Auteur
Robert Latzman
Kep Kee Loh
Ting Xu
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

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.

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hal-04808005 , version 1 (27-11-2024)

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Patrick Friedrich, Stephanie Forkel, Céline Amiez, Joshua Balsters, Olivier Coulon, et al.. Imaging evolution of the primate brain: the next frontier?. NeuroImage, 2021, 228, pp.117685. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117685⟩. ⟨hal-04808005⟩
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