“Unique” brain area seen only in humans

In this schematic, the later­al front­al pole pre­front­al cor­tex is shown as the dark red area at the right.

“Unique” brain area seen only in humans Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity re­search­ers have iden­ti­fied a small zone at the very front of the hu­man brain that looks un­like an­y­thing in the brains of some of our clos­est mon­key rel­a­tives.

The brain ar­ea is con­sid­ered to be in­ti­mately in­volved in some of the most ad­vanced plan­ning and de­ci­sion-mak­ing pro­cesses that we think of as be­ing es­pe­cially hu­man.

“We ...

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