{"id":1559,"date":"2024-10-17T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:15:08","slug":"10-25-2024-todd-preuss-discovering-human-brain-specializations-present-at-the-creation-of-a-new-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2024\/10\/17\/10-25-2024-todd-preuss-discovering-human-brain-specializations-present-at-the-creation-of-a-new-science\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/25\/2024 Todd Preuss: Discovering Human Brain Specializations \u2014 Present at the Creation of a New Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Neuroscience Brown Bag<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1560 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/10\/17140306\/Todd-Preuss.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Preuss\" width=\"285\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Todd Preuss, PhD<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Professor Emeritus\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"e2ma-style\">Emory National Primate Research Center<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"e2ma-style\">Emory Medical School<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, October 25, 2024<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a01:25PM-2:15PM<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0316 Wilson Hall<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>Discovering Human Brain Specializations \u2014 Present at the Creation of a New Science<\/h6>\n<p>The development of non-invasive neuroscientific technologies, particularly those involving MRI and genomics, and new comparative methodologies developed by evolutionary biologists, now allows us to identify unique features of the human brain.\u00a0 Current evidence makes it clear that the classical association regions of cerebral cortex were greatly expanded in humans, with particular enlargement of regions involved in semantic representation, language, and social cognition (including theory of mind).\u00a0 Diffusion MRI has also revealed human specializations of connectivity involving some of the expanded regions.\u00a0 Evolutionary changes in gene sequences and gene expression were numerous, although their phenotypic significance is typically unclear.\u00a0 One important unresolved issue is whether the enlargement of human cerebral cortex was accompanied by the addition of new cortical areas.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact <a href=\"mailto:jon.h.kaas@Vanderbilt.Edu\">Jon Kaas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience Brown Bag Todd Preuss, PhD Professor Emeritus\u00a0 Emory National Primate Research Center Emory Medical School &nbsp; Date: Friday, October 25, 2024 Time:\u00a01:25PM-2:15PM Location:\u00a0316 Wilson Hall Discovering Human Brain Specializations \u2014 Present at the Creation of a New Science The development of non-invasive neuroscientific technologies, particularly those involving MRI and genomics, and new comparative methodologies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/10\/17140812\/Neuroscience-Todd-Preuss-pdf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}