Comment on "Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons".

@enMota and Herculano-Houzel (Reports, 3 July 2015, p. 74) assign power functions to neuroanatomical data and present a model to account for evolutionary patterns of cortical folding in the mammalian brain. We detail how the model assumptions are in conflict with experimental and observational work and show that the model itself does not accurately fit the data. Copyright © 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ecole Normale Super
MRC Lab Mol Biol
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien
Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik