Attempts to relate brain size to behaviour and cognition have rarely integrated information
from insects with that from vertebrates. Many insects, however, demonstrate that highly …

The performance of the brain is constrained by wiring length and maintenance costs. The
apparently inverse relationship between number of neurons in the various interneuron …

This essay is presented with two principal objectives in mind: first, to document the
prevalence of fractals at all levels of the nervous system, giving credence to the notion of …

Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a
considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how …

The astonishing behavioural repertoires of social insects have been thought largely innate,
but these insects have repeatedly demonstrated remarkable capacities for both individual …

This article provides a retrospective, current, and prospective overview on developments in
brain research and neuroscience. Both theoretical and empirical studies are considered …

A writing system is a visual notation system wherein a repertoire of marks, or strokes, is used
to build a repertoire of characters. Are there any commonalities across writing systems …

This book is a colorful journey into the fascinatingly diverse world of interneurons, an
important class of highly heterogeneous cells found in all cortical neuronal networks …

Over the history of the study of visual perception there has been great success at
discovering countless visual illusions. There has been less success in organizing the …

Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human. But
barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called" …