BRAIN STRUCTURE Comment on 'Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons'

摘要

The cerebrum of largemammals is convoluted, whereas that of smallmammals is smooth. Mota and Herculano-Houzel (Reports, 3 July 2015, p. 74) inspired a model on an old theory that proposed a fractal geometry. I show that their model reduces to the product of gray-matter proportion times the folding index. This proportional relation describes the available data even better than the fractal model.