id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ll4mv7kpxzenjod7ldcfiy73ji L. A. Krubitzer Cortical evolution in mammals: The bane and beauty of phenotypic variability 2012 8 .pdf application/pdf 9068 1075 57 variability in cortical organization, morphology, and behavior that First we examine aspects of the cortical phenotype that are ubiquitous across species because of inheritance from a common ancestor (homology). tion of cortical fields involved in sensory processing, such as primary visual (V1), somatosensory (S1), and auditory (A1) areas aspects of cortical organization covary with alterations in peripheral morphology and the very unique behaviors associated with evolution by natural selection, yet most studies of neural organization and connectivity underscore the similarities across individuals within a group rather than their differences. the most likely place to observe measurable within-species differences is in the features of organization that demonstrate dramatic variability across species, like cortical field size and sensory between genes, cortical field size, and behavior and demonstrates Finally, as noted above, alterations in cortical field size and neuronal density are observed in the same species of rat reared in ./cache/work_ll4mv7kpxzenjod7ldcfiy73ji.pdf ./txt/work_ll4mv7kpxzenjod7ldcfiy73ji.txt