primate

n.

灵长目动物；（英国教会的）大主教；首领；监督长

adj.

灵长目动物的；首要的；

复数：primates

1. Compared to body size, the primate brain is larger than that of other animals.
   相对身躯而言，灵长目动物的大脑比其他动物的大脑都要大些。
2. This is the rarest primate species on earth, and the Endangered Primate Rescue Center had only one couple in captivity.
   这是世界上最罕见的灵长目物种，援救濒临灭绝灵长目动物中心只囚禁了一对。

Primate models of movement disorders of basal ganglia origin.
A Composite Estimate of Primate Phylogeny
The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging
Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational memory
Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex.
Topography of Cognition: Parallel Distributed Networks in Primate Association Cortex
A primate model of parkinsonism: selective destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra by N-met...
Influence of Reward Expectation on Behavior-Related Neuronal Activity in Primate Striatum
Modifications of reward expectation-related neuronal activity during learning in primate striatum.
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