Superior pattern processing (SPP) capabilities of the human brain evolved in association with expansion of the cerebral cortex. A comparison of the gross anatomy of the brains of humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) reveals considerable expansion of three regions in humans, the prefrontal cortex, the visual cortex, and the parietal—temporal—occipital juncture (PTO). Examples of SPP capabilities of humans are listed next to the human brain. Examples of pattern processing capabilities of great apes are listed adjacent to the image of the chimpanzee brain. Source of brain images is Wikimedia Commons. Scale bar, 1 cm.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00265">Image file</a> from <cite style="font-style:normal">Mattson M (2014). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141622">Superior pattern processing is the essence of the evolved human brain</a>". <i>Frontiers in Neuroscience</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00265">10.3389/fnins.2014.00265</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID" class="extiw" title="w:PMID">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25202234">25202234</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central" class="extiw" title="w:PubMed Central">PMC</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141622">4141622</a>.</cite>