• DOI:10.1159/000102973
Corpus ID: 17107712

Overall Brain Size, and Not Encephalization Quotient, Best Predicts Cognitive Ability across Non-Human Primates

@article{Deaner2007OverallBS,
  title={Overall Brain Size, and Not Encephalization Quotient, Best Predicts Cognitive Ability across Non-Human Primates},
  author={R. O. Deaner and K. Isler and Judith M Burkart and C. van Schaik},
  journal={Brain, Behavior and Evolution},
  year={2007},
  volume={70},
  pages={115 - 124}
}

• R. O. Deaner, K. Isler, +1 author C. van Schaik
• Published 2007
• Psychology, Medicine
• Brain, Behavior and Evolution

For over a century, various neuroanatomical measures have been employed as assays of cognitive ability in comparative studies. Nevertheless, it is still unclear whether these measures actually correspond to cognitive ability. A recent meta-analysis of cognitive performance of a broad set of primate species has made it possible to provide a quantitative estimate of general cognitive ability across primates. We find that this estimate is not strongly correlated with neuroanatomical measures that… Expand

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