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[Cosmic Queries] Our Brains on Film: Neurocinematics with Heather Berlin

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The Prefrontal Corte Is the Executor of the Brain

Without our pre frontal cortex, there would be no society. There is a direct correlation between e relative size of the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain and the scale of the society. The larger the societies you know that work, the larger the prefrontal cortex. And as you go down with the great apes and anotherther species, the sizes of their society directly correlate to the size of their prefrontal cortex.

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