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How the flow and processing of information shapes the cerebrum

2015-07-15

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The cerebrum of mammals spans a vast range of sizes and yet has a very regular structure. The amount of folding of the cortical surface and the proportion of white matter gradually increase with size, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, two laws are derived to fully explain these cerebral scaling relations. The two general laws are derived from the notion that total processing power of the cortex i...

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Literature Corpus work: 810b09ad-7fcf-50db-80c2-779e667a1ba4
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.239v2

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