The use of neuroimaging in the assessment of brain size and social structure in odontocetes.

• Main Author: Tschudin, Alain Jean-Paul Charles.
• Other Authors: Peddemors, Victor Marten., Henzi, S. Peter., Royston, D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Brain > Magnetic resonance imaging; Brain > Tomography; Toothed whales > Behaviour; Dolphins > Behaviour; Toothed whales > Anatomy; Dolphins > Anatomy; Theses > Psychology; Dunbar; toothed whales
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7460

Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1996. This study successfully utilised the non-invasive neuroimaging techniques of Computerised Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to establish that dolphins have high relative brain size values, transcending the primate range for neocorte...