We investigate the suitability of middle cranial fossa (MCF) size as a proxy for temporal lobe volume (TLV), examining the strength of the association between TLV and MCF metrics and assess the reliability predicting TLV in fossil anthropoids. The temporal lobe of the primate brain is a multimodal association cortex involved in long‐term memory, auditory, and visual processing with unique specializations in modern humans for language comprehension. The MCF is the bony counterpart for the temporal lobe providing inferences for fossil hominin temporal lobe evolution. We now investigate whether the MCF is a suitable proxy for the temporal lobe.

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颅中窝是否是现存和化石类人猿颞叶体积的可靠预测指标？

我们调查了颅中窝（MCF）大小是否适合作为颞叶体积（TLV）的代理，研究了TLV和MCF指标之间关联的强度，并评估了预测TLV在化石类人猿中的可靠性。灵长类动物大脑的颞叶是一种多模式联合皮层，涉及长期记忆，听觉和视觉处理，具有现代人类对语言理解的独特专长。MCF是颞叶的骨对应物，为化石人参颞叶的进化提供了推论。现在，我们调查MCF是否适合颞叶。