Social neuroscience: More friends, more problems...more gray matter?

Maia Ten Brink; Asif A. Ghazanfar

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.12.042

Social neuroscience: More friends, more problems...more gray matter?

Maia Ten Brink
, Asif A. Ghazanfar

Princeton University

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Abstract

The social brain hypothesis generically posits that increasing social group size relates is associated with an increase in neocortex size. A new study identifies, within a species, the specific neural circuit that may confer the primate ability to manage social relationships as they increase in number.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R84-R85
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	22
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.12.042
State	Published - Feb 7 2012

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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