“If understanding everything you needed to know about the brain is a mile, how far have we walked?”
J. Lichtman
Descartes 1662
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Species | # cortical neurons | cortical mass (g) |
---|---|---|
Human | 16 B | 1233 |
Chimpanzee | 6 B | 286 |
Elephant | 5.6 B | 2800 |
Baboon | 2.9 B | 120.2 |
“…our brain outranks that of other animals not because we are an exception in evolution, but rather because…we hold the largest number of neurons in the cerebral cortex…”
“Assuming a realistic range of prior probabilities for null hypotheses, false report probability is likely to exceed 50% for the whole literature.”
\(n=900\) 12-, 18-, 24-mo-olds; \(n=30\) sites
Source: Ori Ossmy (NYU)