An energy costly architecture of neuromodulators for human brain evolution and cognition
Gabriel Castrillón, Samira Maria Epp, Antonia Bose, Laura Fraticelli, André Hechler, Roman Belenya, Andreas Ranft, Igor Y. Yakushev, Lukas Utz, Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Josef P. Rauschecker, Christine Preibisch, Katarzyna Kurcyus, Valentin Riedl
The paper investigates the energetic costs of neuromodulator signaling in the human brain and finds that evolutionarily novel connections have higher energetic costs than sensory-motor pathways.
Science Advances · Dec 13, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience