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Dr. Walker and others questioned the idea that jaw muscles of the more apelike hominids were a major factor in constraining brain size.

What is the role of temperature and metabolism in promoting or constraining brain size?

But the hubs also constrain brain activity by forcing traffic to use a limited number of well-worn routes.

Identifying the factors that promote and constrain brain evolution is fundamental to understanding the processes behind vertebrate brain diversification.

Patchy modularity and other limitations on connectivity often tend to improve processing efficiency, provided they do not constrain the brain to local processing only.

Our voxel selection criterion for ROIs was constrained by brain anatomy and the statistical significance of the voxels for the contrast of interest (for the frontoparietal ROIs, the contrast selected for voxels involved in movement generation; Plan & Execute > Preview; for the OTC ROIs, the contrast selected for voxels with a maximal response to preferred object category).

The brain constrains the design of an efficient writing system so severely that there is little room for cultural relativism.

But if reading is so tightly constrained by innate brain structure, we'd expect that we would simply never use letters like b and d at all.

Yet how white matter structure constrains how the brain transitions from one cognitive state to another remains unknown.

For cognitive neuroscience to go forward a more explicit effort is needed to use neurophysiology to constrain how the brain produces human mental functions.

Studies have shown that MTT is an important aspect of spontaneous thought, yet we lack a clear understanding of how the neurocognitive architecture of the brain constrains this element of human cognition.