A brain area unique to humans is linked to strategic planning/decision making/multitasking
Oxford University researchers have identified a specific area of the human brain that appears to be unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives.
MRI imaging of 25 adult volunteers was used to identify key components in the area of the human brain called the ventrolateral frontal cortex, and how these components were connected up with other brain areas. The results were then compared with equivalent MRI data from 25 macaque monkeys.
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