The telencephalon is the most anterior structure to arise from the neural tube, and its development — from a simple neuroepithelium to a highly complex structure consisting of cerebral cortex and ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Researchers have provided the first experimental evidence that brain regions can evolve independently of each other during cognitive evolution. This so called mosaic brain evolution was verified ...

The telencephalon is the part of the brain responsible for executive functions in fish, according to an experimental study. Zegni Triki and colleagues used guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that had been ...

Different cell types have different functions. They are able to specialize in certain roles because they each express different genes. Understanding what types of cells are in the brain and what they ...

Birds are smart. A large empirical database on their cognitive capacities supports this claim, and readers of Psychology Today can learn more about this topic from the excellent essays posted under ...