Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Associate Director for Communications, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Research Interests: Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a biologist turned neuroscientist who investigates brain diversity: its extent, any constraints that apply, clade-specific features, developmental and evolutionary mechanisms that generate diversity, and the cognitive, energetic and time-related costs and implications of having brains built in different ways.
Keywords: metabolic cost, neuroscience, comparative neuroanatomy, brain size, sleep, numbers of neurons