Evolution of new brain area enables complex movements

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 11:14 in Psychology & Sociology

A new area of the cerebral cortex has evolved to enable man and higher primates to pick up small objects and deftly use tools, according to neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pittsburgh's Veterans Affairs Medical Centre...

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