Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain: Trade-Off between Body Mass and Number of Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex of Large Carnivoran Species

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ravens, New Caledonian crows and jackdaws parallel great apes in motor self-regulation despite smaller brains

(2016) Can Kabadayi et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The domesticated brain: genetics of brain mass and brain structure in an avian species

(2016) R. Henriksen et al.   Scientific Reports

What’s inside your cat’s head? A review of cat (Felis silvestris catus) cognition research past, present and future

(2015) Kristyn R. Vitale Shreve et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Suppressed bone remodeling in black bears conserves energy and bone mass during hibernation

(2015) M. McGee-Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons

(2015) B. Mota et al.   SCIENCE

The glia/neuron ratio: How it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   GLIA

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

All brains are made of this: a fundamental building block of brain matter with matching neuronal and glial masses

(2014) Bruno Mota et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

The elephant brain in numbers

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of Artiodactyla include a highly folded cortex with few neurons

(2014) Rodrigo S. Kazu et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

The Procyonid Social Club: Comparison of Brain Volumes in the Coatimundi(Nasua nasua, N. narica),Kinkajou(Potos flavus),and Raccoon(Procyon lotor)

(2013) Bradley M. Arsznov et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet

(2013) Erik Axelsson et al.   NATURE

The human cerebral cortex is neither one nor many: neuronal distribution reveals two quantitatively different zones in the gray matter, three in the white matter, and explains local variations in cortical folding

(2013) Pedro F. M. Ribeiro et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Quantitative analysis of neocortical gyrencephaly in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and six species of cetaceans: Comparison with other mammals

(2012) Paul R. Manger et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

(2012) K. Fonseca-Azevedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wolves, Dogs, Rearing and Reinforcement: Complex Interactions Underlying Species Differences in Training and Problem-Solving Performance

(2011) Harry Frank   BEHAVIOR GENETICS

Updated Neuronal Scaling Rules for the Brains of Glires (Rodents/Lagomorphs)

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   PLoS One

The bigger they come, the harder they fall: body size and prey abundance influence predator-prey ratios

(2010) C. Carbone et al.   Biology Letters

Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of an Extended Number of Primate Species

(2010) Mariana Gabi et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) and black bears (Ursus americanus) prevent trabecular bone loss during disuse (hibernation)

(2009) Meghan E. McGee-Lawrence et al.   BONE

Acquisition of brains from the African elephant (Loxodonta africana): Perfusion-fixation and dissection

(2009) Paul R. Manger et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Minimal Seasonal Alterations in the Skeletal Muscle of Captive Brown Bears

(2008) John D. Hershey et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY