What is it about?
brains of monkey and humans are very complicated; how do you decide which might be similar in the two
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Why is it important?
the critical question when using an animal model is how good is my model: the more a model has similar areas in its brain to ours, the better the model and the more we can learn from experiments performed in this model. In the limit it does not help medicine to understand fully the brain of an animal if it is poor model for the human brain of course the knowledge might be useful for other purposes such as zoology
Perspectives
the first steps are the most difficult ones, once you a set of areas identified as homologous this can act as a seed for further identification of homologies
Professor Guy A Orban
university of Parma
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This page is a summary of: Functional definitions of parietal areas in human and non-human primates, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0118.
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