NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewed
An energy costly architecture of neuromodulators for human brain evolution and cognition
Gabriel Castrillón, Samira Maria Epp, Antonia Bose…·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.