Neocortex

... best interactive learning experience. You can see a sample of the material you can find in the portal here: http://www.wesapiens.org/file/1403089/NeoCortex++++Golgi%27s+technique++150um It is a virtual microscope simulation of a slide of a Neocortex Golgi´s Technique and as you can see the quality ...

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... emotions are felt and relayed to the old part of the brain and later on more developed mammals evolved a third component to the brain called the neocortex where the logical thinking occurs. So primitive man would have had all three parts of the brain functioning and so would be able to think ...

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... long time ago" that emotions were felt in an older part of the brain as opposed to intelligence which was located more in the forebrain or neocortex. If this fact still holds (correct me if not) then emotions have little to do with intelligence. Most creatures with a mid brain would be ...

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Does it make more sense to measure the size/volume of the neocortex in relation to another part of the brain to make a rough index. We could then compare it to cetacean neocortex indices. As for the evolution of a neocortex, there are 4 theories for the ...

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I think you're looking for a simple answer when there isn't one. What makes a larger neocortex isn't reducible to a single event, but a whole pattern. Current theory says that we're building a brain with the same genes as other apes, but the relative expression of ...

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