Brain complexity: we 'R not chimps (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, July 24, 2015, 19:17 (3410 days ago) @ David Turell

We have areas for abstract thought that the chimps don't even show:-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-a-human-brain-unique/?WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20150724-"Neuroscientists have identified an area of the brain that might give the human mind its unique abilities, including language. The area lit up in human, but not monkey, brains when they were presented with different types of abstract information.-"The idea that integrating abstract information drives many of the human brain's unique abilities has been around for decades. But a paper published in Current Biology, which directly compares activity in human and macaque monkey brains as they listen to simple auditory patterns, provides the first physical evidence that a specific area for such integration may exist in humans. Other studies that compare monkeys and humans have revealed differences in the brain's anatomy, for example, but not differences that could explain where humans' abstract abilities come from, say neuroscientists."-Comment: Not unexpected.